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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Potter-Walsh Eviction Risk: Moderate , Lansing

Tract 26065002101 · Ingham County, MI · pop 2,173 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Census tract 26065002101 covers part of the Potter-Walsh area of Lansing, MI, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.4/10.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 18% Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units670
Renter share39.7%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate14.1%
Median income$50,789

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Potter-Walsh
Very High
Within parent city
43 th percentile
Rank, 43rd percentileLowHigh
#24 of 41 tracts In Lansing
Moderate
Within county
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#44 of 84 tracts In Ingham County
Moderate
Within state
65 th percentile
Rank, 65th percentileLowHigh
#1,045 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Lansing and the region

Centroid at 42.7227, -84.5311 · click any tract to drill in

Why Potter-Walsh scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Lansing
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.6
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
14.1% poverty · this tract
3.5
Supply constraint
$860 rent vs county FMR
2.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lansing
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lansing
5.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lansing
4.5

How Potter-Walsh compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Potter-Walsh risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.5This tracttract 0021014.0Lansingparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 65

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 Potter-Walsh. 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 Potter-Walsh

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

Cost burden runs 54% here against 46.5% across Ingham County. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.6/10.

Average gross rent is $860, 13% below the Lansing average. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lansing. 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 #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

It tracks the Ingham County average of 4.6 closely. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $50,789. 40% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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 26065002101

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065002101?

Census tract 26065002101 in the Potter-Walsh neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (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 26065002101?

Median gross rent is $860/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26065002101?

14.1% of residents in tract 26065002101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,173.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26065002101?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 47th, minority 81th, housing 34th.
Q5

Is tract 26065002101 considered part of Potter-Walsh?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065002101 fall within Potter-Walsh (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26065002101 struggle to pay rent?

About 18.3% 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. 12.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26065002101 compare to Lansing overall?

Tract 26065002101 scores 4.5/10, higher than the parent city of Lansing at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lansing eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26065002101 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. 34% 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.
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Top eight tracts in Lansing ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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