Palmer Woods Eviction Risk: Lower , Detroit
Tract 26163538100 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,205 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 3.2/10, tract 26163538100 in the Palmer Woods area of Detroit, MI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.4413, -83.1269 · click any tract to drill in
Why Palmer Woods scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Palmer Woods compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 12
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 3%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 3%Grade A
- 38%Grade B
- 9%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 Palmer Woods. 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.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 10.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.7%Food insecurity
- 13.2%SNAP enrollment
- 8.1%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 26.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Palmer Woods
30% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10.
Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $1,285, 20% above the Detroit average.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $96,724, annual rent is just 16%. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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