Volks Eviction Risk: Elevated , Dearborn Heights

Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.7 points. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. 23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

71% 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. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.7/10. Food insecurity runs 32.0% against 17.8% nationally.

The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Housing insecurity runs 25.4% against 14.2% nationally.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.