Nortown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

SNAP participation runs 49.8% against 15.2% nationally. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 28.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against Wayne County at 46.6%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $27,381, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Average gross rent is $778, 28% below the Detroit average. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.4 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. 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.

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