Who lives in Chester Park, Duluth, Minnesota

Chester Park's household mix is the most evenly split in this guide, and that is the most useful thing to know about it. In the best-fit tract, 50.9 percent of occupied units are owner-occupied and 49.1 percent rented, against a citywide 60.2 and 39.8.

Two populations sit side by side. There are established owner households, many of them families, drawn by the yards, the gorge, the ski hill and an east-side address at well under Congdon prices, and many of them long-tenured. And there is a large student and university population, undergraduate and graduate, renting whole houses on the blocks below the campuses, plus faculty and staff who work at the top of the hill and walk to work.

The housing reflects that split precisely: 72.0 percent of units are single-family, which is a family-housing profile, while nearly half of occupancy is rental, which is not. Those two facts describe the same houses used two different ways.

Median household income in the tract is $86,359, which is above the citywide figure and above every other neighborhood covered in this batch, though the presence of student households in the same tract makes any single income figure here harder to read than usual.

Household sizes skew in both directions, larger among the family owners and larger again among the student group houses, with relatively little in between.

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