Cadillac Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Detroit
Tract 26163507200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 1,342 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
26163507200 is a census tract in the Cadillac Heights area of Detroit, MI. It scores 5.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 1,342 residents. Against Wayne County at 46.6%, about a quarter of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.4209, -83.0738 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cadillac Heights scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cadillac Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 71%Socioeconomic
- 85%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 38%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 36.4%Housing insecurity
- 30.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 49.4%Food insecurity
- 54.4%SNAP enrollment
- 24.4%Transit barriers
- 12.6%No health insurance
- 23.5%Frequent mental distress
- 45.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cadillac Heights
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Disability prevalence runs 45.6% against 31.5% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points.
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. Nationally it ranks #22,681 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 14% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.7/10. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 26163507200
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