Riverdale Eviction Risk: High

Food insecurity runs 44.1% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 48.4% against 15.2% nationally.

Cost burden runs 61% here against 45.6% across Cook County. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.4/10. Annualized rent equals 42% of average household income of $36,705, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.3/10. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points.

75% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10.

The poverty rate is 29%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The filing record is not thin: 1,029 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2002, when 20.2% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 14.8% 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.