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

Pershing Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Tract 26163506900 · Wayne County, MI · pop 3,450 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Tract 26163506900 sits in the Pershing area of Detroit eviction risk, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6/10. It is home to 3,450 residents. Severe burden reaches 59%. 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 27% Stable renters 8% Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units1,308
Renter share35.3%
SVI overall0.90
Poverty rate40.9%
Median income$31,633

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Pershing
Moderate
Within parent city
72 th percentile
Rank, 72nd percentileLowHigh
#78 of 274 tracts In Detroit
Elevated
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#163 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 42.4368, -83.0672 · click any tract to drill in

Why Pershing 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
40.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,034 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Pershing compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Pershing risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 5069004.6Detroitparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 90

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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.

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 Pershing

roughly three in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Wayne County average of 46.6%. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 55.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 37.0% against 14.2% nationally. Running hot, 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.

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $31,633, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 26163506900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163506900?

Census tract 26163506900 in the Pershing 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 26163506900?

Median gross rent is $1,034/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 77% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163506900?

40.9% of residents in tract 26163506900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,450.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163506900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 90th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 98th, household 74th, minority 97th, housing 52th.
Q5

Is tract 26163506900 considered part of Pershing?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163506900 fall within Pershing (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163506900 struggle to pay rent?

About 37.0% 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. 31.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163506900 compare to Detroit overall?

Tract 26163506900 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 26163506900 historically redlined?

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