Southeast Marble Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing
Tract 26065004301 ·
Ingham County, MI · pop 4,458 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
26065004301 is a census tract in the Southeast Marble area of East Lansing, MI. It scores 7.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 4,458 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. 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 28%Stable renters 17%Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,610
Renter share45.3%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate37.1%
Median income$57,353
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50th percentile
#1 of 1 tracts In Southeast Marble
Moderate
Within parent city
100th percentile
#1 of 19 tracts In East Lansing
Very High
Within county
95th percentile
#5 of 84 tracts In Ingham County
Very High
Within state
100th percentile
#1 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across East Lansing and the region
Centroid at 42.7344, -84.4578 · click any tract to drill in
Why Southeast Marble scores 7.8
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
37.1% poverty · this tract
9.3
Supply constraint
$1,142 rent vs county FMR
5.1
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 Southeast Marble compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
43%Socioeconomic
32%Household composition
41%Racial/ethnic minority
55%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
0%Grade A
37%Grade B
16%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.
11.6%Housing insecurity
9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
17.0%Food insecurity
16.2%SNAP enrollment
10.8%Transit barriers
6.8%No health insurance
21.3%Frequent mental distress
32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Southeast Marble
It sits 3.2 points above the Ingham County average of 4.6. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. Cost burden runs 61% here against 46.5% across Ingham County.
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 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.9/10.
Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.6 points hotter. Average gross rent is $1,142, close to the East Lansing average. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $57,353.
45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 26065004301
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065004301?
Census tract 26065004301 in the Southeast Marble 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 26065004301?
Median gross rent is $1,142/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26065004301?
37.1% of residents in tract 26065004301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,458.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26065004301?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 32th, minority 41th, housing 55th.
Q5
Is tract 26065004301 considered part of Southeast Marble?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065004301 fall within Southeast Marble (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
What share of households in tract 26065004301 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.6% 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. 9.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 26065004301 compare to East Lansing overall?
Tract 26065004301 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 26065004301 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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