Brownell Holmes Eviction Risk: Moderate , Flint
Tract 26049000500 · Genesee County, MI · pop 1,695 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 26049000500 covers part of the Brownell Holmes area of Flint, MI, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,695 residents. 38% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Flint and the region
Centroid at 43.0560, -83.7250 · 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: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 10%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
- 25%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.
- 39.2%Housing insecurity
- 34.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 56.1%Food insecurity
- 63.6%SNAP enrollment
- 28.5%Transit barriers
- 14.7%No health insurance
- 24.4%Frequent mental distress
- 52.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Brownell Holmes
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 39.2% against 14.2% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 63.6% against 15.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 50% of average household income of $26,925, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 47%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.
At $1,125 a month, rents run 23% over what the rest of Flint commands. It sits 1.1 points above the Genesee County average of 4.3.
The voucher gap is 14.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 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. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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