Cottage Grove Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,154 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 793 filings here across 15 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 26.2% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 22.1% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2001, when 12.0% of renter households were served.

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. In a typical year about 6.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #10,320 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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