Magnificent Mile Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

The voucher gap is 45.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 9.6/10.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. 20% 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 1.7/10. Against Cook County at 45.6%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 527 filings here across 15 tracked years. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

Housing insecurity runs 6.6% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 4.7% of renter households were served.

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.