Regent Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163500200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,549 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 6.7/10, tract 26163500200 in Regent Park in Detroit ranks in the Elevated tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 2,549 residents. That is riskier than about 90% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 37% of renter households, a high level, and 14% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,289 monthly, set against $49,420 in average yearly household income, roughly 31% of income at the averages. About 64% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.4461, -82.9633 · click any tract to drill in
Why Regent Park scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Regent Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 81%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 97%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%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
- 100%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 Regent Park. 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.
- 32.0%Housing insecurity
- 26.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.4%Food insecurity
- 44.2%SNAP enrollment
- 20.8%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 23.2%Frequent mental distress
- 37.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Regent Park
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 8.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Detroit eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Wayne County average of 6.4 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 32.0% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 26.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 63rd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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