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Census Tract · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally

Oak Park Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 26125171000 · Oakland County, MI · pop 5,510

Census tract 26125171000 covers part of Oak Park, MI, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,510 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.5/10.

Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20% Stable renters 21% Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units2,033
Renter share41.1%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate10.1%
Median income$83,750

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 8 tracts In Oak Park
Low
Within county
79 th percentile
Rank, 79th percentileLowHigh
#76 of 350 tracts In Oakland County
High
Within state
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#801 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Elevated
National
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#32,842 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Oak Park and the region

Centroid at 42.4819, -83.1915 · click any tract to drill in

Why Oak Park scores 5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Oak Park
7.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.7
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
10.1% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,658 rent vs county FMR
7.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Oak Park
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Oak Park
8.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Oak Park
6.6

How Oak Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Oak Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.0This tracttract 1710004.3Oak Parkparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 68

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Oak Park

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. Cost burden runs about half here against 39.8% across Oakland County. The voucher gap is 20.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

At $1,658 a month, rents run 19% over what the rest of Oak Park commands. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.5/10.

Against the Oakland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. 10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.

That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 7.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $83,750.

41% 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 26125171000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26125171000?

Census tract 26125171000 in Oak Park scores 5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 26125171000?

Median gross rent is $1,658/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26125171000?

10.1% of residents in tract 26125171000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,510.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26125171000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 57th, household 98th, minority 55th, housing 34th.
Q5

What share of households in tract 26125171000 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 7.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 26125171000 compare to Oak Park overall?

Tract 26125171000 scores 5/10, higher than the parent city of Oak Park at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Oak Park eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7

Was tract 26125171000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Oak Park

Top eight tracts in Oak Park ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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