Oakwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing

Against Ingham County at 46.5%, 81% of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $23,480 and the ratio lands at 61%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. It sits 3.2 points above the Ingham County average of 4.6.

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 filing counts suggest.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. This is renter territory: 92% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.6/10.

Disability prevalence runs 44.3% against 31.5% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 89th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.