Gratiot-Findlay Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Cost burden runs roughly two in three here against 46.6% across Wayne County. SNAP participation runs 52.6% against 15.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 51% of average household income of $25,440, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.