Sterling Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.5/10.

At $1,132 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Sterling Heights commands. It sits 0.7 points above the Macomb County average of 3.9. That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 44% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 27% of average household income of $49,770. 40% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.