Mandell Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

SNAP participation runs 47.3% against 15.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

At $1,168 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,368 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2008, when 9.4% of renter households were served.

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.

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