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Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Corktown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Detroit

Tract 26163521400 · Wayne County, MI · pop 1,207 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

Census tract 26163521400 covers part of the Corktown area of Detroit, MI, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,207. The severe-burden share is 40%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 30% Stable renters 37% Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units754
Renter share67.0%
SVI overall0.45
Poverty rate22.7%
Median income$55,417

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Corktown
Moderate
Within parent city
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#220 of 274 tracts In Detroit
Very Low
Within county
55 th percentile
Rank, 55th percentileLowHigh
#281 of 625 tracts In Wayne County
Elevated
Within state
76 th percentile
Rank, 76th percentileLowHigh
#712 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Detroit and the region

Centroid at 42.3306, -83.0730 · click any tract to drill in

Why Corktown scores 5.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Detroit
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
22.7% poverty · this tract
5.7
Supply constraint
$1,260 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Detroit
2.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Detroit
6.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Detroit
6.0

How Corktown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Corktown risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.2This tracttract 5214004.6Detroitparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 45

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Corktown

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.

The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,260, 17% above the Detroit average. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 26163521400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163521400?

Census tract 26163521400 in the Corktown neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 26163521400?

Median gross rent is $1,260/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163521400?

22.7% of residents in tract 26163521400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,207.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163521400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 45th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 68th, household 17th, minority 72th, housing 25th.
Q5

Is tract 26163521400 considered part of Corktown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163521400 fall within Corktown (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163521400 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 12.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163521400 compare to Detroit overall?

Tract 26163521400 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of Detroit at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Detroit eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26163521400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 70% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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