Pontiac Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. Against Oakland County at 39.8%, 26% of renters here are cost-burdened. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Average gross rent is $1,339, 26% above the Pontiac average. Against the Oakland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Pontiac. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $90,806, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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