Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chattanooga

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

Disability prevalence runs 46.6% against 31.5% nationally. At $940 a month, rents run 25% under what the rest of Chattanooga commands.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 1.9/10. It sits 1.0 points above the Hamilton County average of 3.9.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chattanooga. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #34,278 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the TN average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 31% of average household income of $36,674.

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