Burton Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26049011301 · Genesee County, MI · pop 4,516
Census tract 26049011301 covers part of Burton, MI, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,516 residents. 49% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Burton and the region
Centroid at 42.9664, -83.6824 · click any tract to drill in
Why Burton scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Burton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 83%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 56%Grade D · redlined
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.8%Housing insecurity
- 19.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.0%Food insecurity
- 38.9%SNAP enrollment
- 17.6%Transit barriers
- 11.8%No health insurance
- 25.3%Frequent mental distress
- 44.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Burton
Cost burden runs 63% here against 45.3% across Genesee County. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.8/10.
SNAP participation runs 38.9% against 15.2% nationally. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. The poverty rate is 39%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $33,406, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Food insecurity runs 35.0% against 17.8% nationally.
It sits 1.1 points above the Genesee County average of 4.3. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.3/10. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Flint. 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Burton
Top eight tracts in Burton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.