Martin Luther Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Cook County average of 45.6%.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 190 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2012 at 5.2% 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 2.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 80th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $95,045, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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