Fifth City Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $43,951, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Food insecurity runs 34.7% against 17.8% nationally.

This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Cook County average of 6.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 565 filings here across 15 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2011, when 12.2% of renter households were served. At $1,321 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Chicago commands.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 6.8% of renter households face a filing.

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