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Neighborhood · Ranked #23,808 of 84,120 nationally

Boynton Eviction Risk: Moderate , River Rouge

Tract 26163577000 · Wayne County, MI · pop 4,637 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 26163577000 covers part of the Boynton area of Lincoln Park, MI, and scores 5.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,637 residents. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.

Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 35% Owners 44%
Tract context
Occupied units1,735
Renter share55.7%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate40.4%
Median income$50,087

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#8 of 10 tracts In Boynton
Low
Within parent city
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 11 tracts In River Rouge
Very High
Within county
60 th percentile
Rank, 60th percentileLowHigh
#249 of 625 tracts In Wayne County
Elevated
Within state
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#494 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across River Rouge and the region

Centroid at 42.2522, -83.1671 · click any tract to drill in

Why Boynton scores 5.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from River Rouge
7.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
40.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$917 rent vs county FMR
1.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from River Rouge
6.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from River Rouge
6.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from River Rouge
7.4

How Boynton compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Boynton risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.5This tracttract 5770005.5River Rougeparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 89

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Boynton. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Boynton

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Wayne County at 46.6%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Housing insecurity runs 28.9% against 14.2% nationally. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.7/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. It sits 0.9 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6.

At $917 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Lincoln Park commands. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 72% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 26163577000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163577000?

Census tract 26163577000 in the Boynton neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 26163577000?

Median gross rent is $917/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163577000?

40.4% of residents in tract 26163577000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,637.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163577000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 81th, household 82th, minority 78th, housing 87th.
Q5

Is tract 26163577000 considered part of Boynton?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163577000 fall within Boynton (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163577000 struggle to pay rent?

About 28.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 22.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163577000 compare to River Rouge overall?

Tract 26163577000 scores 5.5/10, right in line with the parent city of River Rouge at 5.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from River Rouge; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26163577000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in River Rouge

Top eight tracts in River Rouge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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