Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally
Southgate Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26163582000 · Wayne County, MI · pop 3,059
With a score of 5.1/10, tract 26163582000 in Southgate, MI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,059. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21%
Stable renters 46%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units1,481
Renter share66.6%
SVI overall0.55
Poverty rate23.9%
Median income$47,740
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
54
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
75
th percentile
Elevated
National
63
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Southgate and the region
Centroid at 42.1924, -83.1863 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southgate scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Southgate
7.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
23.9% poverty · this tract
6.0
Supply constraint
$1,071 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Southgate
5.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Southgate
7.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Southgate
5.2
How Southgate compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 55
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 51%Socioeconomic
- 47%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 1%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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 18.0%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 24.1%Food insecurity
- 24.0%SNAP enrollment
- 12.7%Transit barriers
- 8.9%No health insurance
- 22.4%Frequent mental distress
- 36.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Southgate
32% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Wayne County average of 46.6%. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.2/10. SNAP participation runs 24.0% against 15.2% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.2/10. 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. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.9/10. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
It tracks the Wayne County average of 4.6 closely. Average gross rent is $1,071, close to the Southgate average.
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 26163582000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163582000?
Census tract 26163582000 in Southgate scores 5.1/10 (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 26163582000?
Median gross rent is $1,071/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 32% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26163582000?
23.9% of residents in tract 26163582000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,059.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26163582000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 55th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 47th, minority 44th, housing 63th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 26163582000 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.0% 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. 13.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 26163582000 compare to Southgate overall?
Tract 26163582000 scores 5.1/10, higher than the parent city of Southgate at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Southgate eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 26163582000 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 Southgate
Top eight tracts in Southgate ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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