Garden Homes Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Cost burden runs 85% here against 45.6% across Cook County. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8.5/10.

It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Food insecurity runs 32.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. At $1,208 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 134 filings here across 15 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2011 at 13.9% of renter households.

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.