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Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally

Indian Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Okemos

Tract 26065004902 · Ingham County, MI · pop 4,939 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 26065004902 covers part of the Indian Hills area of Okemos, MI, and scores 5.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,939. 39% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 34% Stable renters 28% Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units2,156
Renter share62.7%
SVI overall0.55
Poverty rate31.0%
Median income$58,516

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Indian Hills
Moderate
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 7 tracts In Okemos
Very High
Within county
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#10 of 84 tracts In Ingham County
High
Within state
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#465 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Okemos and the region

Centroid at 42.7175, -84.4416 · click any tract to drill in

Why Indian Hills scores 5.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Okemos
6.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
31.0% poverty · this tract
7.8
Supply constraint
$1,293 rent vs county FMR
6.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Okemos
5.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Okemos
8.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Okemos
6.0

How Indian Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Indian Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.6This tracttract 0049024.2Okemosparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 55

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 Indian Hills

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.4/10. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10.

Cost burden runs 55% here against 46.5% across Ingham County. On the high side, economic stress reads 7.8/10. Against the Ingham County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

The voucher gap is 14.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 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 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. 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 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,293, close to the Okemos average.

Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $58,516.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 26065004902

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065004902?

Census tract 26065004902 in the Indian Hills neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (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 26065004902?

Median gross rent is $1,293/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26065004902?

31.0% of residents in tract 26065004902 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,939.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26065004902?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 55th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 76th, household 4th, minority 50th, housing 75th.
Q5

Is tract 26065004902 considered part of Indian Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065004902 fall within Indian Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26065004902 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.7% 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. 8.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26065004902 compare to Okemos overall?

Tract 26065004902 scores 5.6/10, higher than the parent city of Okemos at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Okemos eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26065004902 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. 0% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Okemos

Top eight tracts in Okemos ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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