Clarendon Park Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 90% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $47,674 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. SNAP participation runs 28.2% against 15.2% nationally.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,173 filings here across 15 tracked years. Average gross rent is $1,272, 12% below the Chicago average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2002 at 6.6% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing.

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.