Elsdon Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

At $974 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Chicago commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 24.7% against 11.3% nationally.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. It sits 0.9 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. The filing record is not thin: 196 evictions over 15 years of observation.

Housing insecurity runs 21.7% against 14.2% 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 2.4% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $71,319, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

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