Central Street Evanston Eviction Risk: Lower , Wilmette

At $1,135 a month, rents run 43% under what the rest of Wilmette commands. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.4/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 5.7% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 81 filings here across 15 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2008, when 3.1% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.