St. Bens Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Against Cook County at 45.6%, roughly one in three of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.5% against 31.5% nationally.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally.

At $1,693 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Chicago commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 136 filings here across 15 tracked years.

It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2001, when 1.7% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

In a typical year about 0.8% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $124,167, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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