Southtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Oak Park

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.8/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.3 points. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.8/10. At $1,267 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Oak Park commands.

The filing record is not thin: 196 evictions over 15 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 9.7% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2013, when 4.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

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