Illinois Medical District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. 25% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate.

Internally this is not one market. Tract scores span 5.8 to 8.1, so two buildings inside the same boundary can carry materially different risk. This is a renter market: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,081, 25% below the Chicago average of $1,440. Well under the midpoint is supply constraint, at 2.4/10. SNAP participation is 28.5% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Filings are well documented here: 874 across 2 observed tracts. Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10.

CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 21.2% of adults, against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2001, when filings touched 13.4% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 2.1% in 2015, is well off that peak.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 7.3 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.