South Brighton Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

At $980 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Food insecurity runs 33.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. 12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

SNAP participation runs 24.7% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1.

The filing record is not thin: 310 evictions over 15 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2002, when 3.8% of renter households were served.

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 2.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10.

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.