South Lynn Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 49.7% against 17.8% nationally. 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 26.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,148 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 491 eviction filings across 15 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 16.3% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

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