Ridgeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Evanston

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10.

Disability prevalence runs 18.4% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.8/10.

SNAP participation runs 6.7% against 15.2% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 468 evictions over 15 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,544, 12% below the Evanston average.

Filings peaked in 2001 at 4.2% 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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