Chattanooga Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.9/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 24%. 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. Against Hamilton County at 40.3%, 46% of renters here are cost-burdened. It sits 1.0 points above the Hamilton County average of 3.9.

Average gross rent is $1,068, 15% below the Chattanooga average. 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. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.9/10, 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 household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $55,808.

45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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