Motor Row Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Average gross rent is $588, 59% below the Chicago average. Food insecurity runs 59.1% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 66.2% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 53%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 98% 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.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. 24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.

Set annual rent against average income of $20,938 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 832 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 22.8% 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 14.1% of renter households face a filing.

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.