Brookline Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Against Cook County at 45.6%, around two-thirds of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 39.3% against 17.8% nationally.

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.4/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $36,927, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

At $1,121 a month, rents run 22% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Court records carry 1,223 eviction filings across 15 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 7.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.