Far West Detroit Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dearborn Heights

Cost burden runs about three-quarters here against 46.6% across Wayne County. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.7/10. Average gross rent is $1,625, 22% above the Dearborn Heights average.

Running hot, housing-court posture reads 7.4/10. The voucher gap is 17.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

SNAP participation runs 24.6% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.2/10.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Detroit. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Wayne County average of 4.6 closely.

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