Tri-Taylor Eviction Risk: High , Chicago

Food insecurity runs 36.7% against 17.8% nationally. Set annual rent against average income of $45,234 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.6/10.

The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. It sits 2.0 points above the Cook County average of 6.1. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10.

Against Cook County at 45.6%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 20.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The filing record is not thin: 458 evictions over 15 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 8.6% of renter households. 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 6.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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