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

Greenfield Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Tract 26163540200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,784 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 6/10, tract 26163540200 in the Greenfield area of Detroit, MI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,784. 46% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 29% Stable renters 16% Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,136
Renter share45.4%
SVI overall0.76
Poverty rate36.5%
Median income$43,088

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Greenfield
Very Low
Within parent city
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#77 of 274 tracts In Detroit
Elevated
Within county
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#118 of 625 tracts In Wayne County
High
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 42.4338, -83.2097 · click any tract to drill in

Why Greenfield 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
36.5% poverty · this tract
9.1
Supply constraint
$1,114 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Greenfield compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Greenfield risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 5402004.6Detroitparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 76

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

Within Greenfield. 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 Greenfield

64% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Wayne County average of 46.6%. SNAP participation runs 51.0% against 15.2% nationally. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the high side, economic stress reads 9.1/10.

The poverty rate is 36%, 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.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. 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.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 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 socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 26163540200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163540200?

Census tract 26163540200 in the Greenfield 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 26163540200?

Median gross rent is $1,114/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163540200?

36.5% of residents in tract 26163540200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,784.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163540200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 76th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 82th, minority 100th, housing 12th.
Q5

Is tract 26163540200 considered part of Greenfield?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163540200 fall within Greenfield (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163540200 struggle to pay rent?

About 35.9% 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. 29.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163540200 compare to Detroit overall?

Tract 26163540200 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 26163540200 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.
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