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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 37% Stable renters 23% Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units478
Renter share59.8%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate35.4%
Median income$28,250

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 8 tracts In Dexter-Linwood
Low
Within parent city
49 th percentile
Rank, 49th percentileLowHigh
#141 of 274 tracts In Detroit
Moderate
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#53 of 625 tracts In Wayne County
Very High
Within state
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#141 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Very High
Geographic context

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-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
35.4% poverty · this tract
8.9
Supply constraint
$872 rent vs county FMR
1.3
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 Dexter-Linwood compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Dexter-Linwood risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 5317004.6Detroitparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 81

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Dexter-Linwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 26163531700

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163531700?

Census tract 26163531700 in the Dexter-Linwood neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 26163531700?

Median gross rent is $872/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 62% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163531700?

35.4% of residents in tract 26163531700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,133.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163531700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 99th, household 18th, minority 96th, housing 54th.
Q5

Is tract 26163531700 considered part of Dexter-Linwood?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163531700 fall within Dexter-Linwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163531700 struggle to pay rent?

About 33.9% 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. 28.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163531700 compare to Detroit overall?

Tract 26163531700 scores 6/10, 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 26163531700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 35% 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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