West DePaul Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

At $2,199 a month, rents run 53% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

The voucher gap is 24.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Food insecurity runs 5.7% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The filing record is not thin: 77 evictions over 15 years of observation. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2003, when 0.9% 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing.

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