Grand Crossing Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 59.8% against 15.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 52% of average household income of $24,101, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Average gross rent is $1,035, 28% below the Chicago average. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Court records carry 653 eviction filings across 15 observed years.

Filings peaked in 2002 at 12.7% 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.

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