Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally

Whitehills Eviction Risk: Moderate , East Lansing

Tract 26065003901 · Ingham County, MI · pop 2,422 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 5.6/10, tract 26065003901 in the Whitehills area of East Lansing, MI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score

5.6

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 22% Stable renters 16% Owners 62%

Tract context

Occupied units888

Renter share37.3%

SVI overall0.31

Poverty rate14.5%

Median income$106,875

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across East Lansing and the region

Centroid at 42.7517, -84.4736 · click any tract to drill in

Why Whitehills scores 5.6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from East Lansing

6.9

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.6

State political climate

Michigan legislature & governorship

3.3

Economic stress

14.5% poverty · this tract

3.6

Supply constraint

$985 rent vs county FMR

3.7

Rent control risk

Inherited from East Lansing

9.6

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

2.8

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from East Lansing

9.6

Housing court bias

Inherited from East Lansing

9.5

How Whitehills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 31

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

23%Socioeconomic
33%Household composition
52%Racial/ethnic minority
44%Housing & transportation

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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
5%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.

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.

7.4%Housing insecurity
5.3%Utility-shutoff threat
9.0%Food insecurity
7.5%SNAP enrollment
5.8%Transit barriers
4.8%No health insurance
14.9%Frequent mental distress
26.4%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Whitehills

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.6/10. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10.

Against Ingham County at 46.5%, 58% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Ingham County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.

Average gross rent is $985, 16% below the East Lansing average. Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. 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.

Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.8/10. Against average income of $106,875, annual rent is just 11%.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

37% 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 26065003901

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065003901?

Census tract 26065003901 in the Whitehills neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 26065003901?

Median gross rent is $985/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 26065003901?

14.5% of residents in tract 26065003901 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,422.

How socially vulnerable is tract 26065003901?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 23th, household 33th, minority 52th, housing 44th.

Is tract 26065003901 considered part of Whitehills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065003901 fall within Whitehills (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 26065003901 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.4% 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. 5.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 26065003901 compare to East Lansing overall?

Tract 26065003901 scores 5.6/10, lower than the parent city of East Lansing at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from East Lansing eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 26065003901 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.

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