Homan Square Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Food insecurity runs 37.3% against 17.8% nationally. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $50,926, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 343 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2001 at 21.7% of renter households.

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 8.3% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.