K-Town Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. Housing insecurity runs 31.8% against 14.2% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 32.1% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.8/10. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Court records carry 182 eviction filings across 15 observed years. The worst year on record was 2010, when 5.4% of renter households were served.

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 2.5% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 85% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.