Oakwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing
Tract 26065004100 · Ingham County, MI · pop 5,166 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 26065004100 belongs to the Oakwood area of East Lansing, Michigan. It is home to 5,166 residents and scores $1/10, a high reading for landlords. That puts it among the highest-scoring tracts in the entire country, the top 1% nationally for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 81% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 74% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,200 monthly, set against $23,480 in average yearly household income, roughly 61% of income at the averages. Renters make up 92% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across East Lansing and the region
Centroid at 42.7367, -84.4830 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oakwood scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Oakwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 47
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 26%Grade A
- 74%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 20.3%Housing insecurity
- 17.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.5%Food insecurity
- 40.2%SNAP enrollment
- 23.8%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 31.6%Frequent mental distress
- 44.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Oakwood
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from East Lansing eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores well above the Ingham County average of 6.2 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 47th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 20.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord underwriting a deal here, treat timelines and legal costs as the real risk: East Lansing eviction risk sits in territory where contested cases drag and tenant defenses are well organized, so airtight notices and screening matter more than usual.
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Highest-risk tracts in East Lansing
Top eight tracts in East Lansing ranked by composite eviction-risk score.