Norwayne Eviction Risk: Moderate , Westland

Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Food insecurity runs 37.5% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $36,820, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Cost burden runs 54% here against 46.6% across Wayne County. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 21.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.9/10. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. Average gross rent is $988, 15% below the Westland average.

That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.