Dexter-Linwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163531700 · Wayne County, MI · pop 1,133 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 6/10, tract 26163531700 in the Dexter-Linwood area of Detroit, MI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,133. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.3980, -83.1172 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dexter-Linwood scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Dexter-Linwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 18%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%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
- 64%Grade C
- 35%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 Dexter-Linwood. 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.
- 33.9%Housing insecurity
- 28.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 45.2%Food insecurity
- 49.4%SNAP enrollment
- 22.1%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 22.8%Frequent mental distress
- 43.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Dexter-Linwood
Food insecurity runs 45.2% against 17.8% nationally. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Cost burden runs 62% here against 46.6% across Wayne County.
Housing insecurity runs 33.9% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, economic stress reads 8.9/10.
Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $28,250, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1.3/10.
It sits 1.4 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6. Average gross rent is $872, 19% below the Detroit average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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.
Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.3/10.
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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