WitMor Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Saginaw
Tract 26145010401 · Saginaw County, MI · pop 2,800 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 26145010401 covers part of the WitMor Heights area of Saginaw, MI, and scores 5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,800. The dominant input is housing-court posture at 9.1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Saginaw and the region
Centroid at 43.4474, -83.9753 · click any tract to drill in
Why WitMor Heights scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow WitMor Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 71
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within WitMor Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.3%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.4%Food insecurity
- 16.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.1%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 18.1%Frequent mental distress
- 35.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in WitMor Heights
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9/10. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10.
Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Against the Saginaw County average of 4.3, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
49% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Average gross rent is $887, close to the Saginaw average. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $55,743.
34% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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