Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chattanooga

Adults with no health insurance runs 32.7% against 11.3% nationally. The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Disability prevalence runs 46.4% against 31.5% nationally. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,023, 19% below the Chattanooga average.

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 C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.