Winter Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Freeport

Against Stephenson County at 36.4%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 35.6% against 17.8% nationally. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.3/10.

66% 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. It sits 1.6 points above the Stephenson County average of 4.4.

The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 3.1/10. At $708 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Freeport commands. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $29,544.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.