Fifth City Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

SNAP participation runs 60.3% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 40.8% against 14.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Set annual rent against average income of $36,681 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.

It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Average gross rent is $1,168, 19% below the Chicago average.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 651 filings here across 15 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 11.1% 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.

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