Fifth City Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

SNAP participation runs 49.4% against 15.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.5/10.

Housing insecurity runs 34.7% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Cost burden runs 57% here against 45.6% across Cook County.

76% 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. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $43,355, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,204, 16% below the Chicago average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 435 filings here across 15 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2002, when 11.6% 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.