West Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163515300 · Wayne County, MI · pop 3,270 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Eviction risk in the West Village area of Detroit centers on tract 26163515300, which scores 6.9/10 (Elevated tier) and is home to 3,270 residents. On the national scale it ranks #5,799 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 51% of renter households, a severe level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $750 monthly, set against $32,747 in average yearly household income, roughly 27% of income at the averages. Renters make up 80% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.3533, -83.0006 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Village scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 58%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 93%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
- 46%Grade C
- 52%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.
- 25.1%Housing insecurity
- 21.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.7%Food insecurity
- 38.8%SNAP enrollment
- 17.1%Transit barriers
- 8.6%No health insurance
- 20.7%Frequent mental distress
- 40.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Village
What moves this score most is economic stress at 8.2/10. 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.
This tract overlaps land the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation redlined in the 1930s, a dominant grade of D ("Hazardous") across 52% of the tract. Redlining cut off mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class blocks, and those areas still tend to carry higher rent burden and eviction filings today.
In CDC survey modeling, about 25.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 21.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
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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