Dauphin Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 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.

Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $43,359, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 37% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Housing insecurity runs 24.6% against 14.2% nationally. At $1,183 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 408 filings here across 15 tracked years. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2001 at 8.1% of renter households.

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 6.0% of renter households face a filing.

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