Pontiac Eviction Risk: Elevated

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. At $322 a month, rents run 70% under what the rest of Pontiac commands.

Food insecurity runs 56.5% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 34.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The poverty rate is 55%. 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.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.

This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.7/10.

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