Chesterton Eviction Risk: Lower

The voucher gap is 36.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 8.7/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.6/10. At $1,634 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Chesterton commands. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 1.7/10.

SNAP participation runs 4.9% against 15.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.8 points below the Porter County average of 3.8.

That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.6/10.

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.