Palmer Woods Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ferndale

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.8/10. roughly one in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Oakland County average of 39.8%. Disability prevalence runs 18.7% against 31.5% nationally.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.2/10. SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. At $1,154 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Ferndale commands.

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 #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $88,000, annual rent is just 16%.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Oakland County average of 4.0 closely.

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