Madison Heights Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 26125181500 · Oakland County, MI · pop 2,239
In Madison Heights, census tract 26125181500 scores $1/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 75% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 53% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,425 a month while the average household earns $59,125 a year, roughly 29% of income at the averages. About 25% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Madison Heights and the region
Centroid at 42.4841, -83.1093 · click any tract to drill in
Why Madison Heights scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Madison Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 44%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 33%Grade C
- 7%Grade D · redlined
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.
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.
- 11.0%Housing insecurity
- 7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.3%Food insecurity
- 11.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 24.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Madison Heights
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 7.6/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Madison 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 Oakland County average of 5.7 and in line with the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 7% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 19th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 26125181500
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Highest-risk tracts in Madison Heights
Top eight tracts in Madison Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.