Becks Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 35.2% against 17.8% nationally.

21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 29.0% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.9/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,209 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

The filing record is not thin: 511 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2002 at 13.3% of renter households.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 9.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #9,433 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.6/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.6 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.