Virginia Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Detroit
Tract 26163533100 · Wayne County, MI · pop 1,595 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 5.9/10, tract 26163533100 in the Virginia Park area of Detroit, MI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,595 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.3719, -83.1019 · click any tract to drill in
Why Virginia Park scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Virginia Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%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
- 96%Grade C
- 4%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 Virginia Park. 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.
- 35.0%Housing insecurity
- 30.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 48.9%Food insecurity
- 55.8%SNAP enrollment
- 24.8%Transit barriers
- 12.4%No health insurance
- 23.2%Frequent mental distress
- 47.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Virginia Park
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Wayne County average of 46.6%.
At $760 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Detroit commands. Disability prevalence runs 47.6% against 31.5% nationally.
The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10.
Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. 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 #19,618 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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