Quarton Eviction Risk: Lower , Birmingham

The voucher gap is 62.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. Disability prevalence runs 17.8% against 31.5% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 4.6% against 17.8% nationally. At $2,239 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Birmingham commands.

It sits 1.0 points below the Oakland County average of 4.0. Against Oakland County at 39.8%, 44% of renters here are cost-burdened. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 15% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $243,482, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

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