Lakeview East Eviction Risk: Elevated

This is a renter market: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The 5 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.8 to 8, a 2.2-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10.

19% 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. At $1,784 a month, rents sit 24% over what the rest of Chicago commands. On the softer side is economic stress, at 2.3/10.

Court records carry 1,999 eviction filings across its 5 observed tracts. On the high side is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10. Food insecurity affects 7.4% of adults, 10.4 points below the national rate.

4.1% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filing activity peaked in 2004 at 5.6% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 1.0% in 2015, is well off that peak.

Among the 187 mapped neighborhoods of Chicago, it ranks #121 by risk, the middle third.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6.2 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.