River West Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

At $2,575 a month, rents run 79% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The voucher gap is 46.2%: 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.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. Disability prevalence runs 13.8% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 275 filings here across 15 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2011, when 3.9% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #28,095 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.