Heart of Chicago Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 20%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10.

22.6% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 7.1 to 8.1, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. Cost burden runs 35% against 29.3% citywide, putting Heart of Chicago 5.2% over its own city.

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 22.8% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Court records carry 1,086 eviction filings across its 4 observed tracts. On the high side is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10. At $1,222 a month, rents sit 15% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

Filing activity peaked in 2013 at 3.6% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 1.7% in 2015, is well off that peak.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 7.7 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.