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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Oak Ridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Waverly

Tract 26045020103 · Eaton County, MI · pop 3,622 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 5.4/10, tract 26045020103 in the Oak Ridge area of Waverly, MI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 21% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,700
Renter share39.3%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate16.9%
Median income$55,714

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Oak Ridge
Very High
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 8 tracts In Waverly
Very High
Within county
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 29 tracts In Eaton County
Very High
Within state
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#527 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Waverly and the region

Centroid at 42.7463, -84.6323 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oak Ridge scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Waverly
5.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
16.9% poverty · this tract
4.2
Supply constraint
$916 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Waverly
3.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Waverly
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Waverly
4.0

How Oak Ridge compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oak Ridge risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0201034.0Waverlyparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 75

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Eviction filings

Court-record eviction history

Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 426Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 7.42%Avg annual filing rate
  • 9.9%Peak (2015)
  • 71Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 26045020103
Filings climbed 42% over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Oak Ridge. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Oak Ridge

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9/10. Cost burden runs 47% here against 35.6% across Eaton County.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Against the Eaton County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Average gross rent is $916, 22% below the Waverly average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 426 filings here across 8 tracked years.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 3.1/10. Filings peaked in 2015 at 9.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lansing. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 7.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.8/10.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 26045020103

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26045020103?

Census tract 26045020103 in the Oak Ridge neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 26045020103?

Median gross rent is $916/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26045020103?

16.9% of residents in tract 26045020103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,622.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26045020103?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 89th, minority 48th, housing 75th.
Q5

Is tract 26045020103 considered part of Oak Ridge?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26045020103 fall within Oak Ridge (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26045020103?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 426 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 26045020103 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.42% of renter households, peaking at 9.9% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 26045020103 struggle to pay rent?

About 13.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 26045020103 compare to Waverly overall?

Tract 26045020103 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Waverly at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Waverly eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 26045020103 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Waverly

Top eight tracts in Waverly ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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