Waukegan Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Housing insecurity runs 27.9% against 14.2% nationally. SNAP participation runs 28.6% against 15.2% nationally.

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.

At $976 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Waukegan commands. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

47% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Lake County average of 42.6%. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $66,840, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most 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.