Boston Edison Eviction Risk: Moderate , Detroit

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2/10. SNAP participation runs 23.0% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $967 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Detroit commands. 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. That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $70,253, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

48% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Wayne County average of 4.6 closely.

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.