Waverly Eviction Risk: Lower

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. Average gross rent is $921, 21% below the Waverly average.

The filing record is not thin: 192 evictions over 8 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2013, when 15.4% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Lansing. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 8.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $82,943, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 37% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Eaton County average of 4.0 closely.

28% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.