Elwood Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Washington

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 43% here against 33.2% across Washington County. 67% 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.

Against the Washington County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 288 filings here across 7 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2000 at 13.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 10.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

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