Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chattanooga

The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10.

The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10.

It sits 1.0 points above the Hamilton County average of 3.9. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 5.3/10 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 household composition measure is the least pressured.

40% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $1,223, close to the Chattanooga average. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $66,343.

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.