Lower Rail District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Royal Oak

Cost burden runs around a third here against 39.8% across Oakland County. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.2/10.

9% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. At $1,205 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Royal Oak commands. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Detroit. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Oakland County average of 4.0 closely. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $76,292. 51% 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.