Northtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lansing
Tract 26065000800 · Ingham County, MI · pop 2,749 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
26065000800 is a census tract in the Northtown area of Lansing, MI. It scores 5.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,749 residents. 47% 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 Lansing and the region
Centroid at 42.7471, -84.5372 · click any tract to drill in
Why Northtown scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Northtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 65%Racial/ethnic minority
- 25%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 83%Grade C
- 17%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.
- 25.8%Housing insecurity
- 19.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.5%Food insecurity
- 37.2%SNAP enrollment
- 18.3%Transit barriers
- 15.8%No health insurance
- 23.2%Frequent mental distress
- 41.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Northtown
72% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Ingham County average of 46.5%. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.4/10.
SNAP participation runs 37.2% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 32%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $1,239, 25% above the Lansing average.
On the high side, economic stress reads 7.9/10. Housing insecurity runs 25.8% against 14.2% nationally.
Against the Ingham County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.
Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. 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.
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.
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