Red Cedar Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing

100% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.6/10.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 9.5/10. The severe-burden share is 26%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $36,838, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Average gross rent is $986, 16% below the East Lansing average. Nationally it ranks #10,320 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.3 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Rent takes 30% or more of income for 46% of renters.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.