Pontiac Eviction Risk: Elevated

It sits 2.5 points above the Oakland County average of 4.0. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength 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.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Housing insecurity runs 21.8% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

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 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. 39% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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.