Arcade Row Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 42.8% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 43%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $32,284, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Average gross rent is $1,021, 29% below the Chicago average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 66% 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.

Cost burden runs 54% here against 45.6% across Cook County. The filing record is not thin: 1,144 evictions over 15 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 24.1% of renter households were served.

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.