Lakewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , West Chicago

Cost burden runs 30% here against 41.4% across DuPage County. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.1/10. Average gross rent is $1,828, 24% above the West Chicago average.

Housing insecurity runs 6.4% against 14.2% nationally. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 8% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $161,346, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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.