Smith Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. At $1,744 a month, rents run 21% over what the rest of Chicago commands.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened. The severe-burden share is 11%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 74 filings here across 15 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. Food insecurity runs 10.5% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 8.2% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 3.8% 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 1.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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