Ashland Arts District Eviction Risk: Elevated

The severe-burden share is 31%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The 3 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.2 to 8, a 2.8-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.

Filings are well documented here: 275 across 3 observed tracts. The poverty rate is 17%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Filing activity peaked in 2004 at 3.0% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 0.7% in 2015, is well off that peak. At $1,645 a month, rents sit 7% under what the rest of Evanston commands.

That places it #3 of 7 neighborhoods in Evanston. For a like-for-like read, Ridgeville and South Evanston score within a fraction of it. Against average income of $100,990, annual rent is only 20%, a wide affordability cushion.

47% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

For a specific building, read the per-tract breakdown below rather than the 6.5 headline, because the internal range is too wide to average safely. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.