Hawk Nest Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing
Tract 26037011200 · Clinton County, MI · pop 2,700 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 26037011200 sits in Hawk Nest in East Lansing eviction risk, Michigan eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 7.7/10. That ranks it in the top 1% of US census tracts for landlord eviction risk, among the very hardest places in the country to operate.
About 49% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $839 a month against an average household income of $31,063 a year, roughly 32% of income at the averages. Renters make up 89% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across East Lansing and the region
Centroid at 42.7727, -84.4868 · click any tract to drill in
Why Hawk Nest scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Hawk Nest compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 47%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 3,685Total filings over 9 yrs
- 47.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 45.6%Peak (2010)
- 270Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.5%Housing insecurity
- 19.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.6%Food insecurity
- 42.4%SNAP enrollment
- 24.7%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 28.3%Frequent mental distress
- 41.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Hawk Nest
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from East Lansing eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores well above the Clinton County average of 5.3 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 23.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 19.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 54th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 26037011200
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