State Fair Eviction Risk: Moderate , Ferndale

Against the Oakland County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.2/10. Cost burden runs around a third here against 39.8% across Oakland County.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 72nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Average gross rent is $1,311, close to the Hazel Park average.

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.