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. SNAP participation runs 44.8% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 43.8% 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.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $43,203, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 558 filings here across 15 tracked years. At $1,261 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Filings peaked in 2002 at 11.6% of renter households.

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