West Willow Eviction Risk: Elevated , Ypsilanti
Tract 26161412600 · Washtenaw County, MI · pop 2,647 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 6.7/10, tract 26161412600 in the West Willow area of Ypsilanti, MI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,647 residents. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.8/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Ypsilanti and the region
Centroid at 42.2178, -83.5691 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Willow scores 6.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Willow compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 11
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 51%Racial/ethnic minority
- 14%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 515Total filings over 1 yrs
- 39.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 39.2%Peak (2014)
- 515Filings in 2014 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West Willow. 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.
- 11.0%Housing insecurity
- 8.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.6%Food insecurity
- 11.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.0%Transit barriers
- 5.6%No health insurance
- 17.9%Frequent mental distress
- 23.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Willow
88% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. Against the Washtenaw County average of 5.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.7 points.
The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.1/10. Cost burden runs 40% here against 46.5% across Washtenaw County.
Court records carry 515 eviction filings across 1 observed years. At $1,231 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Ypsilanti commands.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 39.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 39.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 83rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.5 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $68,036.
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.
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