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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Old Forest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lansing

Tract 26065000700 · Ingham County, MI · pop 3,192 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Census tract 26065000700 covers part of the Old Forest area of Lansing, MI, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,192. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.4/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42% Stable renters 30% Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units1,323
Renter share71.5%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate37.0%
Median income$43,906

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Old Forest
Moderate
Within parent city
75 th percentile
Rank, 75th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 41 tracts In Lansing
High
Within county
78 th percentile
Rank, 78th percentileLowHigh
#19 of 84 tracts In Ingham County
High
Within state
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#527 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lansing and the region

Centroid at 42.7442, -84.5561 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old Forest scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lansing
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
37.0% poverty · this tract
9.3
Supply constraint
$975 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lansing
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lansing
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lansing
4.5

How Old Forest compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Old Forest risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0007004.0Lansingparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 93

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

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 Old Forest

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 9.3/10. SNAP participation runs 35.2% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Ingham County average of 46.5%.

This is renter territory: 72% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 31.3% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

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 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.

That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.3/10.

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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 26065000700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065000700?

Census tract 26065000700 in the Old Forest neighborhood 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 26065000700?

Median gross rent is $975/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26065000700?

37.0% of residents in tract 26065000700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,192.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26065000700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 82th, minority 77th, housing 83th.
Q5

Is tract 26065000700 considered part of Old Forest?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065000700 fall within Old Forest (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26065000700 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.1% 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. 19.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26065000700 compare to Lansing overall?

Tract 26065000700 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Lansing at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lansing eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26065000700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 9% 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.
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