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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Civic Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Flint

Tract 26049001300 · Genesee County, MI · pop 2,294 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 26049001300 covers part of the Civic Park area of Flint, MI, and scores 5.4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,294 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13% Stable renters 13% Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,024
Renter share25.7%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate38.1%
Median income$33,243

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 8 tracts In Civic Park
Low
Within parent city
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#29 of 42 tracts In Flint
Low
Within county
73 th percentile
Rank, 73rd percentileLowHigh
#37 of 134 tracts In Genesee County
Elevated
Within state
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#527 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Flint and the region

Centroid at 43.0259, -83.7268 · click any tract to drill in

Why Civic Park scores 5.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Flint
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
38.1% poverty · this tract
9.5
Supply constraint
$868 rent vs county FMR
3.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Flint
1.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Flint
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Flint
5.0

How Civic Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Civic Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0013004.0Flintparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 73

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Civic Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Civic Park

Food insecurity runs 41.7% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, economic stress reads 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Housing insecurity runs 30.6% against 14.2% nationally. Running cool, 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. about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Genesee County average of 45.3%. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.6/10.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 26049001300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26049001300?

Census tract 26049001300 in the Civic Park neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 26049001300?

Median gross rent is $868/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26049001300?

38.1% of residents in tract 26049001300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,294.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26049001300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 68th, minority 86th, housing 32th.
Q5

Is tract 26049001300 considered part of Civic Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26049001300 fall within Civic Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26049001300 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.6% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 25.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26049001300 compare to Flint overall?

Tract 26049001300 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Flint at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Flint eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26049001300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Flint

Top eight tracts in Flint ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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