Chester Eviction Risk: Elevated

It sits 3.1 points above the Delaware County average of 4.7. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Set annual rent against average income of $41,133 and the ratio lands at 37%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.8/10.

Average gross rent is $1,265, 16% above the Chester average. The filing record is not thin: 293 evictions over 7 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 11.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 9.8% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.