City Airport Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 31.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Set annual rent against average income of $41,250 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Running hot, economic stress reads 8.6/10. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 12%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $1,173 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Detroit commands.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.