Southfield Eviction Risk: Moderate

32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.

88% 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. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $46,902, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Against the Oakland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.7/10. SNAP participation runs 23.3% against 15.2% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 77% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.9/10.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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.