Western Dunning Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

At $1,113 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Chicago commands. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Cook County average of 45.6%.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 117 filings here across 15 tracked years. It sits 0.6 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2013 at 3.2% 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.