Chinatown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163520400 · Wayne County, MI · pop 1,607 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Census tract 26163520400 sits in the Chinatown neighborhood of Detroit eviction risk, Michigan eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 7.2/10. That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 51% of renter households, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,085 monthly, set against $22,266 in average yearly household income, roughly 58% of income at the averages. About 99% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.3482, -83.0676 · click any tract to drill in
Why Chinatown scores 6.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Chinatown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Chinatown. 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.
- 26.8%Housing insecurity
- 21.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.5%Food insecurity
- 36.2%SNAP enrollment
- 18.3%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 25.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Chinatown
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 9.4/10. 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.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 91st 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 26.8% 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.
About tract 26163520400
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