Palmer Square Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. 65% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.4% against 31.5% nationally. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 204 filings here across 15 tracked years. 50% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Cook County average of 45.6%.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 3.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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