Inkster Eviction Risk: Elevated

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 52%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.7 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10.

Annualized rent equals 46% of average household income of $28,774, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Housing insecurity runs 35.4% against 14.2% nationally.

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Wayne County average of 46.6%. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

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. That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

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.