Martin Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163530200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 3,825 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 6/10, tract 26163530200 in the Martin Park area of Detroit, MI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 37%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.4111, -83.1342 · click any tract to drill in
Why Martin Park scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Martin Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 65%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 1%Grade B
- 84%Grade C
- 0%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 29.6%Housing insecurity
- 26.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.0%Food insecurity
- 45.4%SNAP enrollment
- 22.1%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 24.8%Frequent mental distress
- 41.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Martin Park
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 41.0% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10.
61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Wayne County average of 46.6%. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
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 C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.8/10 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 housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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