Fulton Market District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

At $2,956 a month, rents run 105% over what the rest of Chicago commands. The voucher gap is 67.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 31% of renters here are cost-burdened. Disability prevalence runs 14.9% against 31.5% nationally. 72% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 8.0% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 399 evictions over 15 years of observation.

It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1. Filings peaked in 2001 at 11.9% of renter households.

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.

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