Sterling Heights Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 26099230000 · Macomb County, MI · pop 4,741
In Sterling Heights, census tract 26099230000 scores 5.6/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
56% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 38% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,336 monthly, set against $54,133 in average yearly household income, roughly 30% of income at the averages. About 66% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Sterling Heights and the region
Centroid at 42.6197, -82.9869 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sterling Heights scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sterling Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.6%Food insecurity
- 13.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 6.9%No health insurance
- 15.9%Frequent mental distress
- 35.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sterling Heights
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.7/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Sterling Heights eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Macomb County average of 5.5 and in line with the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 81st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Sterling Heights
Top eight tracts in Sterling Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.