Red Cedar Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing

It sits 3.2 points above the Ingham County average of 4.6. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.

The poverty rate is 49%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9.6/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.6/10.

73% 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. about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Ingham County average of 46.5%. Average gross rent is $956, 18% below the East Lansing average.

SNAP participation runs 23.8% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 24.9% against 17.8% 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 #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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