Northalsted Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. 75% 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. Disability prevalence runs 15.4% against 31.5% nationally.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Cook County average of 45.6%. SNAP participation runs 4.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 196 filings here across 15 tracked years. The voucher gap is 14.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Filings peaked in 2006 at 1.9% 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.