Garden City Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26163569200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,605
For landlords sizing up Garden City in Wayne County, census tract 26163569200 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. That is riskier than roughly 68% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
40% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 21% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $709 monthly, set against $50,740 in average yearly household income, roughly 17% of income at the averages. About 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Garden City and the region
Centroid at 42.3295, -83.3214 · click any tract to drill in
Why Garden City scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Garden City compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 98%Grade C
- 2%Grade D · redlined
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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.1%Housing insecurity
- 11.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 20.5%Food insecurity
- 20.3%SNAP enrollment
- 10.7%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 21.1%Frequent mental distress
- 36.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Garden City
What moves this score most is economic stress at 5.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Garden City eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores below the Wayne County average of 6.4 and in line with the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 11.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 75th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 26163569200
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Highest-risk tracts in Garden City
Top eight tracts in Garden City ranked by composite eviction-risk score.