University Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Markham

31% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.6/10.

SNAP participation runs 29.8% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,329, 18% below the Markham average. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

The filing record is not thin: 186 evictions over 15 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2010, when 9.6% 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.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.