Sterling Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $1,871 a month, rents run 45% over what the rest of Sterling Heights commands. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

The voucher gap is 35.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 8.6/10. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $69,427, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Nationally it ranks #42,813 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.9/10. 43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

It tracks the Macomb County average of 3.9 closely.

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.