Margate Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Cost burden runs 67% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $50,431, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,730, 20% above the Chicago average. It sits 0.9 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Court records carry 433 eviction filings across 15 observed years.

Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2004, when 2.8% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.5/10.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.