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

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.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 4% Owners 68%
Tract context
Occupied units214
Renter share32.2%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate56.0%
Median income$27,167

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
33 th percentile
Rank, 33rd percentileLowHigh
#3 of 4 tracts In Happy Homes
Low
Within parent city
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#31 of 274 tracts In Detroit
High
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#101 of 625 tracts In Wayne County
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 42.3883, -83.1759 · click any tract to drill in

Why Happy Homes 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
56.0% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,112 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Happy Homes compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Happy Homes risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 5372004.6Detroitparent city4.6Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 65

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 Happy Homes. 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 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 26163537200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26163537200?

Census tract 26163537200 in the Happy Homes 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 26163537200?

Median gross rent is $1,112/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 87% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26163537200?

56.0% of residents in tract 26163537200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 620.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26163537200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 100th, household 37th, minority 99th, housing 4th.
Q5

Is tract 26163537200 considered part of Happy Homes?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26163537200 fall within Happy Homes (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26163537200 struggle to pay rent?

About 42.1% 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. 38.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26163537200 compare to Detroit overall?

Tract 26163537200 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 26163537200 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. 0% 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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