Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chattanooga

The poverty rate is 50%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1/10. At $849 a month, rents run 32% under what the rest of Chattanooga commands.

Disability prevalence runs 49.1% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 28.2% against 11.3% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Cost burden runs 35% here against 40.3% across Hamilton County.

Against the Hamilton County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.8/10. 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.

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