Magnificent Mile Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Average gross rent is $2,745, 91% above the Chicago average. The voucher gap is 55.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Cost burden runs 36% here against 45.6% across Cook County. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 891 evictions over 15 years of observation. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2009, when 9.5% of renter households were served. 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.

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.