Lakewood Balmoral Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10. Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 2.2/10.

Severe burden reaches 16%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Disability prevalence reaches 18.2% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. Court records for this tract carry 120 eviction filings.

Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10. SNAP participation is 6.3% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Filing activity peaked in 2003 at 1.1% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 0.3% in 2015, is well off that peak.

Among the 187 mapped neighborhoods of Chicago, it ranks #128 by risk, the lower third. The closest comparables inside the same city are West Edgewater and Garfield Ridge.

Rent takes 19% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 6/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.