Palmer Park Apartment District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Highland Park

SNAP participation runs 39.4% against 15.2% nationally. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.3/10.

25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Housing insecurity runs 28.7% against 14.2% nationally.

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 #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Wayne County average of 4.6 closely. Average gross rent is $683, close to the Highland Park average.

36% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.