Prospect Heights Eviction Risk: Lower

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10. roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Cook County average of 45.6%.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.6/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 19 filings here across 9 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2012 at 8.0% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 3% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.4/10.

Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.9 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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