Whispering Winds Eviction Risk: Lower , Sterling Heights

The voucher gap is 41.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 9.1/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Against the Macomb County average of 3.9, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. Against Macomb County at 44.2%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 10.3% against 17.8% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $93,207.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.