East Calumet Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 35%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 1.9/10. The poverty rate is 20%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Food insecurity affects 29.8% of adults, 12.0 points above the national rate.

15.3% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Sitting well above the midpoint is housing-court posture at 7.2/10.

At $935 a month, rents sit 9% over what the rest of East Chicago commands. That places it #5 of 9 neighborhoods in East Chicago. Social vulnerability runs high at 8.5/10, concentrating the disaster- and displacement-exposure this model treats as a lagging risk input.

Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $42,105.

One tract means one number: 5.5/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.