Happy Homes Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163537200 · Wayne County, MI · pop 620 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
26163537200 is a census tract in the Happy Homes area of Detroit, MI. It scores 6/10 for landlords. Population here is 620. 87% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.3883, -83.1759 · click any tract to drill in
Why Happy Homes scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Happy Homes compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 37%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 4%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
- 100%Grade C
- 0%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 Happy Homes. 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.
- 42.1%Housing insecurity
- 38.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 56.7%Food insecurity
- 65.1%SNAP enrollment
- 28.9%Transit barriers
- 12.9%No health insurance
- 25.1%Frequent mental distress
- 48.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Happy Homes
Cost burden runs 87% here against 46.6% across Wayne County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 42.1% against 14.2% nationally.
Food insecurity runs 56.7% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 56%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Annualized rent equals 49% of average household income of $27,167, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. 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. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 6.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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