Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
Glencairn Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing
Tract 26065004000 · Ingham County, MI · pop 4,315 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 7.8/10, tract 26065004000 in the Glencairn area of East Lansing, MI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 4,315 residents. Severe burden reaches 48%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units2,018
Renter share54.9%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate33.4%
Median income$46,167
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
78
th percentile
High
Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across East Lansing and the region
Centroid at 42.7393, -84.4977 · click any tract to drill in
Why Glencairn scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
33.4% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$1,024 rent vs county FMR
4.1
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 Glencairn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 71%Grade A
- 5%Grade B
- 1%Grade C
- 7%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.
- 9.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.4%Food insecurity
- 12.4%SNAP enrollment
- 8.8%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 29.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Glencairn
Against Ingham County at 46.5%, roughly two in three of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Ingham County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 3.2 points.
What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.6/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
At $1,024 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of East Lansing commands. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.6 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 26065004000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065004000?
Census tract 26065004000 in the Glencairn neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated 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 26065004000?
Median gross rent is $1,024/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26065004000?
33.4% of residents in tract 26065004000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,315.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26065004000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 64th, household 4th, minority 25th, housing 75th.
Q5
Is tract 26065004000 considered part of Glencairn?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065004000 fall within Glencairn (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
What share of households in tract 26065004000 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.7% 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. 7.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 26065004000 compare to East Lansing overall?
Tract 26065004000 scores 7.8/10, higher 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.
Q8
Was tract 26065004000 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 7% 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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