Butler Eviction Risk: Moderate , Detroit

Cost burden runs 32% here against 46.6% across Wayne County. Housing insecurity runs 30.4% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.1% 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. 16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

On the national scale it lands near the 77th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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