Chinatown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Set annual rent against average income of $22,266 and the ratio lands at 58%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

99% 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. Running hot, economic stress reads 9.4/10. The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

It sits 1.4 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6. Housing insecurity runs 26.8% against 14.2% nationally. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 51% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Wayne County average of 46.6%.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.