Inkster Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs 71% here against 46.6% across Wayne County. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Against the Wayne County average of 4.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.7 points. Annualized rent equals 47% of average household income of $32,401, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.7/10. The poverty rate is 42%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 30.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.4/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.3% against 31.5% nationally.

Average gross rent is $1,277, 9% above the Inkster average. 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.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.2/10. 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.