Royal Oak Eviction Risk: Moderate

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. 30% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Oakland County average of 39.8%. Food insecurity runs 7.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.2/10. At $1,180 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Royal Oak commands.

Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Detroit. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $82,708, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Oakland County average of 4.0 closely. 42% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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