Forest Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Cost burden runs 79% here against 45.6% across Cook County. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Housing insecurity runs 27.1% against 14.2% nationally. SNAP participation runs 26.5% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,724 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Chicago commands.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. It sits 0.9 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 2006, when 5.1% 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 4.2% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

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