Oakwood Eviction Risk: Elevated

Annualized rent equals 61% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. Cost burden runs 81% against 51.0% citywide, putting Oakwood 30.3% over its own city.

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 60%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. 92% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over.

SNAP participation is 40.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10.

On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. 17.8% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, against a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That places it #1 of 14 neighborhoods in East Lansing. For a like-for-like read, Brook-Lane and Hawk Nest score within a fraction of it.

Average gross rent runs $1,200, close to the East Lansing average.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 7.8/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.