Lakewood-Balmoral Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 1.7 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 501 filings here across 15 tracked years. At $1,221 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 3.0% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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