Illinois Medical District Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Average gross rent is $709, 51% below the Chicago average. The poverty rate is 51%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $21,521, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Housing insecurity runs 32.2% against 14.2% nationally.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 827 evictions over 15 years of observation. Against Cook County at 45.6%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened.

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