Weatherby Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

Food insecurity runs 58.0% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 39.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. 60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Wayne County average of 46.6%. Set annual rent against average income of $27,602 and the ratio lands at 39%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 35%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.7/10.

70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.5/10.

Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. At $899 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Detroit commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.