Roosevelt Square Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Cook County average of 45.6%. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 128 evictions over 15 years of observation.

At $1,622 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The worst year on record was 2012, when 4.3% 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 2.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Annual rent works out to 30% of average household income of $64,223.

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