South Lynn Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 46.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.2/10. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $1,097 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Court records carry 1,264 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Filings peaked in 2013 at 10.9% 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.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.