Lawndale Eviction Risk: Lower

Cost burden runs 47% against 37.3% citywide, putting Lawndale 9.4% over its own city. 22% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 8.4/10.

On the high side is housing-court posture at 8.3/10. Court records for this tract carry 75 eviction filings.

The worst year on record was 2016, when filings touched 11.2% of renter households. 5.1% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Recent filings have not receded much: 7.9% in 2018 against a 11.2% peak.

At 12% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. Against average income of $85,714, annual rent is only 13%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Average gross rent runs $909, close to the Galesburg average.

One tract means one number: 3/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.