Southgate Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.6 points. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.

Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $974 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Southgate commands.

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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 6.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $79,758, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 45% of renters.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.