Grove Place Eviction Risk: Lower

36% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, above the Chester rate of 29.5%. On the softer side is eviction-process difficulty, at 2.5/10. Filings are well documented here: 1,880 across 2 observed tracts.

8% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Filing activity peaked in 2014 at 57.2% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 16.9% in 2016, is well off that peak.

Among the 4 mapped neighborhoods of Chester, it ranks #4 by risk, the lower third. At 25% renter-occupied, this is predominantly owner territory, and rental comps have to be drawn from further out. Rent takes 19% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.2 points apart at the extremes.

Average gross rent runs $1,516, close to the Chester average.

With little internal variation, 3.7/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.