Whispering Winds Eviction Risk: Lower , Sterling Heights
Tract 26099230604 · Macomb County, MI · pop 3,328 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 26099230604 (the Whispering Winds area of Sterling Heights, Michigan) comes in at 5.5/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 57% of US census tracts.
About 49% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,946 monthly, set against $93,207 in average yearly household income, roughly 25% of income at the averages. Renters make up 43% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Sterling Heights and the region
Centroid at 42.6162, -83.0813 · click any tract to drill in
Why Whispering Winds scores 2.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Whispering Winds compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%Housing & transportation
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.3%Food insecurity
- 7.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.7%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 26.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Whispering Winds
What moves this score most is supply constraint at 9.1/10. 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 Sterling Heights 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 Macomb County average of 5.5 and in line with 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 23rd 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 8.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Sterling Heights
Top eight tracts in Sterling Heights ranked by composite eviction-risk score.