Pulaski Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Housing insecurity runs 38.3% against 14.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 32.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $39,160 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.4/10. This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

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

Average gross rent is $1,170, 9% above the Detroit average. 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.

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.