Westwood Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit
Tract 26163543700 · Wayne County, MI · pop 2,168 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Eviction risk in the Westwood Park area of Detroit centers on tract 26163543700, which scores 7.2/10 (Elevated tier) and is home to 2,168 residents. That is riskier than roughly 97% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 61% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $755 a month while the average household earns $23,542 a year, roughly 38% of income at the averages. About 65% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Detroit and the region
Centroid at 42.3894, -83.2387 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westwood Park scores 6.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Westwood Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 87%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 37%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 62%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 Westwood 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.
- 42.3%Housing insecurity
- 35.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 56.0%Food insecurity
- 62.0%SNAP enrollment
- 28.7%Transit barriers
- 14.3%No health insurance
- 27.5%Frequent mental distress
- 46.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Westwood Park
The score leans hardest on economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Detroit eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Wayne County average of 6.4 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 42.3% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 35.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly Black and ranks around the 86th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 26163543700
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