Waukegan Eviction Risk: Moderate

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 27.4% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Lake County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Lake County average of 42.6%. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $1,066 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Waukegan commands. That is riskier than roughly 74% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $60,179.

53% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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