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Census Tract · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Flint Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 26049001700 · Genesee County, MI · pop 1,193

26049001700 is a census tract in Flint, MI. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. Food insecurity runs 46.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25% Stable renters 16% Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units586
Renter share41.1%
SVI overall0.84
Poverty rate34.0%
Median income$25,809

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#28 of 42 tracts In Flint
Low
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#36 of 134 tracts In Genesee County
Elevated
Within state
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#527 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
National
70 th percentile
Rank, 70th percentileLowHigh
#24,859 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Flint and the region

Centroid at 43.0685, -83.6840 · click any tract to drill in

Why Flint scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Flint
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
34.0% poverty · this tract
8.5
Supply constraint
$1,009 rent vs county FMR
5.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Flint
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Flint
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Flint
5.0

How Flint compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Flint risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0017004.0Flintparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 84

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

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 Flint

34% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Cost burden runs 61% here against 45.3% across Genesee County. Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income of $25,809, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.5/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.1% against 31.5% nationally.

Against the Genesee County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. At $1,009 a month, rents run 10% over what the rest of Flint commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 8.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 26049001700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26049001700?

Census tract 26049001700 in Flint 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 26049001700?

Median gross rent is $1,009/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26049001700?

34.0% of residents in tract 26049001700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,193.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26049001700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 84th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 95th, minority 98th, housing 34th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 26049001700 struggle to pay rent?

About 34.3% 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. 29.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 26049001700 compare to Flint overall?

Tract 26049001700 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Flint at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Flint eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 26049001700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 60% 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 Flint

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

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