Brookdale Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Against Cook County at 45.6%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $42,881 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10.

This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.4/10. Food insecurity runs 31.2% against 17.8% nationally. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 722 filings here across 15 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 22.3% against 14.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2004, when 13.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 9.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #7,382 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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