Far West Detroit Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dearborn Heights

Against Wayne County at 46.6%, 33% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8.3/10.

Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $1,062 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Dearborn Heights commands. SNAP participation runs 26.1% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 1.1 points above the Wayne County average of 4.6. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.4/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.5 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.