Northside Eviction Risk: Moderate , East Chicago

Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.9/10.

Housing insecurity runs 26.8% against 14.2% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Against the Lake County average of 4.4, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Against Lake County at 43.0%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 24.6% against 15.2% nationally. At $949 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of East Chicago commands.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lake Co. Gary. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.9/10.

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