Pontiac Eviction Risk: Elevated

Food insecurity runs 45.9% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 48.4% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 49%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Oakland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Average gross rent is $730, 31% below the Pontiac average.

Severe burden reaches 19%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.