North Kenwood Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

The poverty rate is 42%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $922 a month, rents run 36% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Set annual rent against average income of $31,833 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 26.4% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,307 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2002, when 8.8% 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.

In a typical year about 7.7% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.