University Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Average gross rent is $2,275, 58% above the Chicago average. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. The voucher gap is 29.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 7.9/10. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The filing record is not thin: 296 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2008, when 7.2% 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. In a typical year about 4.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.