Chinatown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

At $309 a month, rents run 71% under what the rest of Detroit commands. SNAP participation runs 45.4% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10.

The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Disability prevalence runs 44.5% against 31.5% nationally. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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.

That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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