Brownell Holmes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Flint
Tract 26049000400 · Genesee County, MI · pop 1,059 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 26049000400 covers part of the Brownell Holmes area of Flint, MI, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,059 residents. Against Genesee County at 45.3%, 74% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Flint and the region
Centroid at 43.0649, -83.7041 · click any tract to drill in
Why Brownell Holmes scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Brownell Holmes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 4%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
- 70%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.
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.
- 37.5%Housing insecurity
- 34.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 53.9%Food insecurity
- 62.0%SNAP enrollment
- 27.8%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 23.5%Frequent mental distress
- 51.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Brownell Holmes
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Food insecurity runs 53.9% against 17.8% nationally.
The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Housing insecurity runs 37.5% against 14.2% nationally.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. Set annual rent against average income of $30,625 and the ratio lands at 36%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
Against the Genesee County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.1 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Flint. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
Average gross rent is $926, close to the Flint average. 63% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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