South Chicago Heights Eviction Risk: High

The severe-burden share is 30%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The clearest offset is supply constraint, at 1/10.

At $1,018 a month, rents sit 29% under what the rest of Chicago commands. The poverty rate is 27%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10.

Food insecurity affects 32.2% of adults, 14.4 points above the national rate. 17.2% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 318 evictions logged in this tract.

Running hot is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10. The worst year on record was 2015, when filings touched 17.1% of renter households. That places it #1 of 187 neighborhoods in Chicago.

Judgments average 2.0% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

One tract means one number: 8.1/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.