Sheffield Neighbors Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

At $2,259 a month, rents run 57% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.4/10. The voucher gap is 28.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 18.2% against 31.5% nationally.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. SNAP participation runs 5.7% against 15.2% nationally.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 27 eviction filings across 11 observed years.

It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2003 at 0.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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.

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