South Park Manor Historic District Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 65% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 46.3% against 17.8% nationally.

Set annual rent against average income of $35,495 and the ratio lands at 43%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 916 evictions over 15 years of observation.

Average gross rent is $1,269, 12% below the Chicago average. The worst year on record was 2001, when 10.6% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 8.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.