Bucktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The voucher gap is 24.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.1/10.

Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%. Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 6.3% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 75 filings here across 15 tracked years.

It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2003, when 1.7% of renter households were served. 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.

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