Buena Vista Eviction Risk: Moderate , Saginaw
Tract 26145011002 · Saginaw County, MI · pop 3,318 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 26145011002 sits in the Buena Vista area of Buena Vista, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.6/10. Population here is 3,318. Against Saginaw County at 48.1%, 25% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Saginaw and the region
Centroid at 43.4166, -83.8919 · click any tract to drill in
Why Buena Vista scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Buena Vista compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%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
- 22%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 Buena Vista. 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.
- 37.0%Housing insecurity
- 34.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 54.7%Food insecurity
- 62.7%SNAP enrollment
- 27.2%Transit barriers
- 14.6%No health insurance
- 23.5%Frequent mental distress
- 53.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Buena Vista
Food insecurity runs 54.7% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 34.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The dominant input is rent-regulation exposure at 9.6/10.
On the high side, housing-court posture reads 9.4/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9/10. The poverty rate is 23%, 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 1.3 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Saginaw. 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 #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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