Pontiac Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against the Oakland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.

roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Oakland County average of 39.8%. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.6/10.

Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. SNAP participation runs 24.9% against 15.2% nationally.

Average gross rent is $911, 14% below the Pontiac average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.3/10. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $61,705, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.3 points hotter. 52% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.