Park West Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Cost burden runs 35% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,780 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Chicago commands.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 388 eviction filings across 15 observed years. 9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2002, when 2.8% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 1.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 80% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.