Weatherby Eviction Risk: Elevated , Detroit

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.7/10. The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Wayne County average of 46.6%. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Set annual rent against average income of $38,059 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.7/10. 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. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.