Royal Oak Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26125183800 · Oakland County, MI · pop 4,497
Tract 26125183800 sits in Royal Oak eviction risk, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It is home to 4,497 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Royal Oak and the region
Centroid at 42.5119, -83.1353 · click any tract to drill in
Why Royal Oak scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Royal Oak compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 11%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 29%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.1%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.0%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 21.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Royal Oak
On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.2/10. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally.
roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Oakland County average of 39.8%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Oakland County average of 4.0 closely.
Average gross rent is $1,350, close to the Royal Oak average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $79,958.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Royal Oak
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