West End Eviction Risk: Lower , Evanston

It sits 2.5 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,833, 18% above the Skokie average. The filing record is not thin: 47 evictions over 14 years of observation. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.1/10.

SNAP participation runs 7.9% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2012 at 9.5% of renter households.

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 3.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 11% 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.