South Lynn Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Cost burden runs about three-quarters here against 45.6% across Cook County. Annualized rent equals 79% of average household income of $15,735, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 37.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 65%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.

Disability prevalence runs 48.2% against 31.5% nationally. Average gross rent is $1,036, 28% below the Chicago average. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 243 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2002, when 12.3% of renter households were served. 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.