East Neighborhood Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Lansing
Tract 26065004493 · Ingham County, MI · pop 1,416 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 26065004493 (the East Neighborhood neighborhood of East Lansing, Michigan) comes in at 7.9/10, the Elevated tier. That ranks it in the top 1% of US census tracts for landlord eviction risk, among the very hardest places in the country to operate.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 100% of renter households, a severe level, and 100% are severely burdened at 50% or more. About 100% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across East Lansing and the region
Centroid at 42.7274, -84.4675 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Neighborhood scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow East Neighborhood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: -1,000
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- -1,000%Socioeconomic
- -1,000%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- -1,000%Housing & transportation
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
- 36%Grade B
- 0%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within East Neighborhood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 30.5%Housing insecurity
- 28.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 52.4%Food insecurity
- 58.2%SNAP enrollment
- 35.1%Transit barriers
- 13.1%No health insurance
- 34.2%Frequent mental distress
- 49.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in East Neighborhood
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. 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 well above 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 30.5% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 28.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 26065004493
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