Chesterton Eviction Risk: Lower

The main counterweight is eviction-process difficulty at 1.7/10. Running cool, state political climate reads 2/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.3/10.

Severe burden reaches 8%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 33rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 10% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 2.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Porter County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $1,322, close to the Chesterton average.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $83,258.

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.