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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Art District Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Tract 26163520200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,681 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 26163520200 covers part of the Art District area of Detroit, MI, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 45%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 60% Stable renters 38% Owners 2%
Tract context
Occupied units812
Renter share97.4%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate41.0%
Median income$34,257

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Art District
Very High
Within parent city
71 th percentile
Rank, 71st percentileLowHigh
#80 of 274 tracts In Detroit
Elevated
Within county
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#199 of 625 tracts In Wayne County
Elevated
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#141 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Detroit and the region

Centroid at 42.3572, -83.0698 · click any tract to drill in

Why Art District scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Detroit
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
41.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,081 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Detroit
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Detroit
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Detroit
6.0

How Art District compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Art District risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 5202004.6Detroitparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 60

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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

Within Art District. 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 Art District

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. 97% 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. Against Wayne County at 46.6%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Set annual rent against average income of $34,257 and the ratio lands at 38%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

It sits 1.4 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 26163520200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163520200?

Census tract 26163520200 in the Art District neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 26163520200?

Median gross rent is $1,081/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163520200?

41.0% of residents in tract 26163520200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,681.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163520200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 2th, minority 67th, housing 93th.
Q5

Is tract 26163520200 considered part of Art District?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163520200 fall within Art District (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163520200 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.4% 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. 11.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163520200 compare to Detroit overall?

Tract 26163520200 scores 6/10, higher than the parent city of Detroit at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Detroit eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26163520200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 53% 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.
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