West Bucktown Eviction Risk: Elevated

What pushes the score up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8/10. The 6 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.3 to 7.1, a 1.8-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

Severe burden reaches 15%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears. Running cool is economic stress, at 2.4/10.

Against a Chicago baseline of 29.3%, 34% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line. Filings are well documented here: 940 across 6 observed tracts.

Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 7.5/10. Disability prevalence reaches 18.5% against a 31.5% national average, which raises the odds a reasonable-accommodation request accompanies any dispute. Filing activity peaked in 2014 at 7.3% of renter households.

The most recent observed rate, 2.3% in 2015, is well off that peak. That places it #128 of 187 neighborhoods in Chicago.

For a like-for-like read, Lakewood Balmoral Historic District and West Edgewater score within a fraction of it. Rent takes 18% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1.8 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.