Pontiac Eviction Risk: Elevated

SNAP participation runs 63.2% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 47%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $638, 40% below the Pontiac average.

It sits 2.5 points above the Oakland County average of 4.0. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.5/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.

80% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. roughly one in two of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Oakland County average of 39.8%.

Disability prevalence runs 49.9% against 31.5% nationally. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Set annual rent against average income of $23,425 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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.