Canaryville Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

At $417 a month, rents run 71% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Housing insecurity runs 42.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 33.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 55%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 97% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 247 filings here across 15 tracked years. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 41% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 15.2% 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 4.1% of renter households face a filing.

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