Pontiac Eviction Risk: Elevated

It sits 2.5 points above the Oakland County average of 4.0. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. This is renter territory: 80% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

The poverty rate is 22%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 7.7/10.

Food insecurity runs 27.9% against 17.8% nationally. 34% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Oakland County average of 39.8%. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Housing insecurity runs 21.7% against 14.2% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.