Brainerd Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. At $1,074 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

SNAP participation runs 28.9% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Housing insecurity runs 25.1% against 14.2% nationally.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,133 filings here across 15 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2002, when 16.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 7.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.1/10. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.2 points hotter.

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