Detroit eviction research
City-level context for eviction filings in Detroit, Michigan. Cited figures are labeled. Missing figures are omitted.
Court and process (high level)
An eviction in Detroit is a court case, not a lockout. The owner files; the tenant has a chance to answer; a hearing may be set; a judgment, if entered, is not possession. A writ executed by the local sheriff, marshal, or constable is typically required before a setout. We do not guarantee any of those intervals.
Michigan summary proceedings to recover possession are typically filed in the district court for the district of the property.
This page does not claim EvictIQ has completed cases in Detroit. Use it for process context and cited public data only.
Census Vintage 2024 population estimate: 645,705. Population is not an eviction statistic.
Primary county (largest Census place-part): Wayne County. Places can cross county lines.
Cited 2016 Eviction Lab figures
6,664
Eviction judgments in 2016 (Eviction Lab city rankings). A judgment is an order that a renter leave — not a filing count.
5.2%
Judgments per 100 renter households, 2016, Eviction Lab. This is a rate, not a ranking we computed from EvictIQ cases.
Source: Princeton Eviction Lab, 2016 city rankings extract, GEOID 2622000. Eviction Lab rankings. Filing counts for this city are not in that extract, so they are omitted.
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