Nortown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163506200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,111 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Landlord eviction risk in census tract 26163506200 (Nortown in Detroit, Michigan) comes in at 6.8/10, the Elevated tier. That is riskier than about 92% of US census tracts.
79% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $882 a month while the average household earns $29,443 a year, roughly 36% of income at the averages. Renters make up 51% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.4375, -83.0317 · click any tract to drill in
Why Nortown scores 6.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Nortown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 86%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 24%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
- 65%Grade C
- 35%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 Nortown. 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.
- 33.3%Housing insecurity
- 27.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 44.1%Food insecurity
- 47.9%SNAP enrollment
- 21.4%Transit barriers
- 10.5%No health insurance
- 23.0%Frequent mental distress
- 41.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Nortown
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. 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 above 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 33.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 27.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 79th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
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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