Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chattanooga

The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.9/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. At $935 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Chattanooga commands. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 40.3% across Hamilton County.

It sits 1.0 points above the Hamilton County average of 3.9. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $54,674. 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.