Pullman, on Chicago’s Far South Side, is home to the Pullman National Historical Park and holds the smallest recorded sales ledger this profile series has measured — small enough that two of our five market signals cannot be scored here at all. What the records do hold: the median house sale went from $68,900 in 2019 to $178,000 in 2025, the 4th-fastest rise of the 68 community areas our screen ranks, on 49 sales — a base small enough to flag. And Pullman sits inside the corridor of the Red Line Extension — the CTA is extending the Red Line 5.5 miles south from 95th/Dan Ryan to 130th Street, per the project page our baseline piece read in full, which describes construction as under way and states no opening date. That baseline defined that corridor as the four areas the alignment and station areas run through or border — Roseland, Pullman, West Pullman and Riverdale — and froze its before-numbers so the same figures can be re-measured against a fixed record when trains run. This page gathers what our analyses have measured about the area; each section links to the analysis its figures come from. What the numbers mean for the people living there is not a question data can settle, and this page does not try.
Every figure comes from the source files of our earlier analyses · assembled August 3, 2026What homes sell for
Houses are nearly the whole recorded market here: 49 house sales in 2025, while two-to-six-flats traded in the single digits — too few for our screens to price. The house median went from $68,900 in 2019 (91 sales) to $178,000 in 2025 (49 sales) — more than two and a half times its 2019 level, though on counts where a handful of transactions moves the number. That leaves the median still far below the citywide 2025 house median of $320,000.
The screens behind these medians are documented here — only arm’s-length deeds, meaning ordinary sales between unrelated parties, mapped to community areas: What a Chicago Home Actually Sold For: 241,653 Deeds, All 77 Community Areas, 2018–2026
Two signals lit, two the screen could not score
Our five-indicator screen looks for house prices accelerating from a below-citywide base, two-to-six-flat prices repricing faster than the city, corporate buyers taking a bigger share, permits multiplying, and new business licenses multiplying. Pullman trips two: prices and permits. But the permit numbers deserve their own sentence: 6 pooled permits across 2018–19 became 11 across 2024–25, which clears the screen’s bar — on totals so small that the half-year counts wobble (5 in the first half of 2025, 2 in the first half of 2026). The flats and licenses signals could not be scored at all: both trade below the floors those screens require, a sparseness this page reports rather than papers over. The corporate share of purchases was about one in five in both pooled windows (22.1 to 21.3 percent) — the signal measures change, and there was little. A signal is a measurement of change in a window, not a verdict on a neighborhood.
The full method is here, with every area scored: Where Chicago’s Gentrification Signals Are Flashing: Five Market Indicators, All 77 Community Areas
What the mortgage records show
Federal mortgage records show 40 home-purchase loans in the area in 2025 against 54 sales of all home types in our deed screen — a few more than the 49 house sales above, because the deed screen also keeps the area’s handful of flat and condo sales — two systems counting different things, not a matched pair. At the bottom of the market, 13 of the recorded sales closed under $100,000 and lenders wrote 2 purchase loans that size — the citywide small-mortgage pattern, present here on small-area counts.
The lending records and their limits are set out here: 1,424 Chicago Homes Sold for Under $100,000 Last Year. Lenders Wrote 289 Mortgages That Size.
City services, on the clock
From our timing of 793,774 closed 311 requests — created January 2024 through June 2026 — pothole requests in Pullman closed in 2.1 days at the median across 447 requests, against 5.1 citywide. Streetlight-outage requests took 2.6 days against 2.5 citywide; abandoned-vehicle requests 11.8 days against 11.6; rodent requests 3.8 against 3.6. Graffiti requests were too few here to lean on (31 closed requests in the window). A closed request is the record’s word, not a verified repair.
Every request type and every area are timed here, with the method: Chicago on the Clock: We Timed 793,774 Service Requests, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
One listed development, and the extension next door
The city’s affordable-rental inventory lists exactly one development in Pullman — 210 units, 36th by listed units of the 66 community areas the inventory covers. The inventory is a courtesy list, last updated December 30, 2024, and partial by its own description. On transit, no L station falls inside the area today; the nearest terminal, 95th/Dan Ryan, averaged 8,950 weekday entries in 2019 and 5,577 in 2025 — and the Red Line Extension, which the CTA’s project page describes as under way, will add stations in the four-area corridor the baseline defines, Pullman among them. That piece froze the corridor’s prices, permits and licenses in advance, with a standing commitment to re-measure when revenue service begins.
The frozen baseline and the re-measure list are here: Before the Red Line Extension Opens, the Record: House Medians in Its Three Higher-Volume Areas Have at Least Doubled Since 2019
Our count of that inventory covers its boundaries and the state law that takes rent control off the table in Chicago: New York City’s Rent Board Set 2026-27 Stabilized Increases at Zero. Illinois Law Bars Chicago From Controlling Private Rents.
How this profile works
Every figure on this page is read from the source files of the analyses linked above, each of which documents its own methods, windows and caveats; no new data was fetched. Pullman is small, and the page says so wherever it matters — two signals unmeasured, sale counts flagged, one 311 type set aside. The standing rule for neighborhood pages: we report what the records show and take no position on where anyone should live — the records cannot answer that, and we do not pretend they can. If you spot an error, corrections come first.