Ridgeland Eviction Risk: High , Oak Park

Food insecurity runs 47.2% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.

Annualized rent equals 41% of average household income of $30,103, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. At $1,030 a month, rents run 28% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2,252 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2001, when 12.8% 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 8.3% 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.