Chester Eviction Risk: Elevated

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.8/10.

41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Delaware County average of 50.9%. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 404 eviction filings across 7 observed years. Filings peaked in 2000 at 20.0% of renter households.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chester. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 14.7% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the PA average is 4.6, so this tract runs 3.2 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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