West Bucktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Average gross rent is $2,023, 40% above the Chicago average. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.2/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 16.4% against 31.5% nationally.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. The filing record is not thin: 175 evictions over 15 years of observation. The voucher gap is 14.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 3.2% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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