Princeton Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened. SNAP participation runs 51.4% against 15.2% nationally. 84% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $41,225, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 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. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 2,223 evictions over 15 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 18.0% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,317, 9% below the Chicago average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.