Southport Corridor Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.2/10. Food insecurity runs 7.9% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 5.9% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 24 filings here across 13 tracked years. The voucher gap is 15.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Cook County average of 45.6%. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2001 at 1.0% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 0.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2/10. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $158,542, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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