Waukegan Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

This is renter territory: 76% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $37,717, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 25.4% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running hot, economic stress reads 7.9/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Lake County average of 4.4. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,050, 13% below the Waukegan average. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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