Bucktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

At $1,976 a month, rents run 37% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10.

Disability prevalence runs 15.9% against 31.5% nationally. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Court records carry 131 eviction filings across 15 observed years. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

The voucher gap is 12.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2004, when 1.7% 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 1.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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