Brownell Holmes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Flint
Tract 26049000200 · Genesee County, MI · pop 1,198 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
The Brownell Holmes area of Flint is where census tract 26049000200 sits, home to 1,198 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 6.6/10. It lands near the 89th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 43% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 12% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $833 monthly, set against $34,844 in average yearly household income, roughly 29% of income at the averages. Renters make up 48% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
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Centroid at 43.0722, -83.7039 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brownell Holmes scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brownell Holmes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 82
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%Housing & transportation
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
- 75%Grade C
- 1%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Brownell Holmes. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 33.9%Housing insecurity
- 29.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 47.9%Food insecurity
- 54.3%SNAP enrollment
- 23.8%Transit barriers
- 11.6%No health insurance
- 22.5%Frequent mental distress
- 48.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Brownell Holmes
The score leans hardest on 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 Flint eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Genesee County average of 6.0 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 1% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
In CDC survey modeling, about 33.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 29.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 26049000200
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