Boynton Eviction Risk: Moderate , River Rouge
Tract 26163524700 · Wayne County, MI · pop 3,732 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
26163524700 is a census tract in the Boynton area of Detroit, MI. It scores 5.5/10 for landlords. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across River Rouge and the region
Centroid at 42.2737, -83.1527 · click any tract to drill in
Why Boynton scores 5.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Boynton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 74%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 34%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 97%Grade C
- 3%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 Boynton. 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.
- 28.3%Housing insecurity
- 22.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.1%Food insecurity
- 38.5%SNAP enrollment
- 17.7%Transit barriers
- 10.3%No health insurance
- 20.2%Frequent mental distress
- 40.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Boynton
Food insecurity runs 37.1% against 17.8% nationally. Against Wayne County at 46.6%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Housing insecurity runs 28.3% against 14.2% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.
Severe burden reaches 17%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 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.
Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,026, close to the Detroit average.
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.
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Highest-risk tracts in River Rouge
Top eight tracts in River Rouge ranked by composite eviction-risk score.