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Neighborhood · Ranked #68,306 of 84,120 nationally

Brody Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Lower , East Lansing

Tract 26065004492 · Ingham County, MI · pop 3,287 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi

For landlords sizing up the Brody Neighborhood area of East Lansing, census tract 26065004492 carries an elevated eviction-risk score of 6.5/10. That is riskier than about 87% of US census tracts.

Risk score
2.4
Lower
Confidence 45% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 0% Stable renters 0% Owners 100%
Tract context
SVI overall-10.00

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Brody Neighborhood
Moderate
Within parent city
11 th percentile
Rank, 11th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 19 tracts In East Lansing
Very Low
Within county
12 th percentile
Rank, 12th percentileLowHigh
#74 of 84 tracts In Ingham County
Very Low
Within state
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#2,310 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across East Lansing and the region

Centroid at 42.7315, -84.4959 · click any tract to drill in

Why Brody Neighborhood scores 2.4

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
this tract poverty rate
3.0
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Brody Neighborhood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Brody Neighborhood risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 2.42.4This tracttract 004492East Lansing: 3.43.4East Lansingparent cityCounty: 4.14.1Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.73.7Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: -1,000

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

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.

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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Brody Neighborhood

The heaviest input here is rent-control risk at 9.6/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from East Lansing eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Ingham County average of 6.2 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 1000th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.

For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.

Frequently asked

About tract 26065004492

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26065004492?

Census tract 26065004492 in the Brody Neighborhood neighborhood scores 2.4/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

How socially vulnerable is tract 26065004492?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the -1000th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic -1000th, household -1000th, minority 38th, housing -1000th.
Q3

Is tract 26065004492 considered part of Brody Neighborhood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26065004492 fall within Brody Neighborhood (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q4

What share of households in tract 26065004492 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.9% 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. 12.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q5

How does tract 26065004492 compare to East Lansing overall?

Tract 26065004492 scores 2.4/10, lower than the parent city of East Lansing at 3.4/10. 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.
Q6

Was tract 26065004492 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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