2 census tracts · pop 8,636 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 6.6/10
· range 6–7.3
Milwood spans 2 census tracts of Kalamazoo, MI, population 8,636. It carries an Eviction Risk Score of 6.6/10, in the Elevated tier. The severe-burden share is 48%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
Cost burden runs 59% against 34.5% citywide, putting Milwood 24.3% over its own city. The strongest single driver of the headline number is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint is housing-court posture at 8.4/10. The 2 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 6 to 7.3, a 1.3-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.
Running hot is rent-regulation exposure at 8/10. Filings are well documented here: 377 across 2 observed tracts. The poverty rate is 17%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.
The worst year on record was 2018, when filings touched 19.1% of renter households. That places it #9 of 16 neighborhoods in Kalamazoo.
Judgments average 2.0% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order. The closest comparables inside the same city are Edison and Parkview Hills. Average gross rent runs $1,049, close to the Kalamazoo average.
Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1.3 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.
Risk score
6.6
Elevated
2 tracts · population-weighted
Milwood vs KalamazooHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority42%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport75%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Milwood
Aggregated across 2 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
377Total filings (sum)
11.24%Avg annual filing rate
19.1%Peak year (2018)
11.87%Latest filed (2018)
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Milwood
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
13.5%Housing insecurity
10.1%Utility shutoff threat
17.6%Food insecurity
17.4%SNAP enrollment
7.8%No health insurance
31.6%Any disability
Frequently asked
About Milwood
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Milwood?
Milwood scores 6.6/10 (Elevated tier) across 2 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Milwood compare to Kalamazoo overall?
Milwood scores 0.7 points higher than Kalamazoo overall (5.9/10). Renters spend 59% of income on rent vs 35% citywide. Average rent: $1,049 vs $1,078.
Q3
What is the average rent in Milwood?
Average gross rent in Milwood is $1,049/month (pop-weighted across 2 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 59% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Milwood residents are renters?
43% of Milwood households are renter-occupied (vs 58% in Kalamazoo). The neighborhood has 8,636 residents.
Q5
Is Milwood a high social-vulnerability area?
Milwood sits in the 59th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (moderately vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
Which tracts in Milwood have the highest eviction risk?
The highest-risk constituent tract in Milwood is census tract 26077001801 (score 7.3/10). Across the 2 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 6 to 7.3, a spread of 1.3 points.
Q7
How safe is Milwood for landlords?
Milwood carries a elevated-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (6.6/10). Pop-weighted across 2 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Kalamazoo as a whole (5.9/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8
What is the demographic breakdown of Milwood?
Milwood has 8,576 residents. Top groups: White (non-Hispanic) (73.7%), Black (non-Hispanic) (18.1%), Other / Multiracial (4.6%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
