Archer Limits Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

The dominant input is local political climate at 8.5/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.7/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

At $1,178 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.3% against 11.3% nationally. Court records carry 189 eviction filings across 15 observed years.

It sits 0.6 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. The worst year on record was 2013, when 5.7% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 3.1% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 83% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.