Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally
Milwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo
Tract 26077001801 · Kalamazoo County, MI · pop 4,016 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 26077001801 sits in the Milwood area of Kalamazoo eviction risk, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.3/10. Population here is 4,016. 71% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,520
Renter share39.1%
SVI overall0.54
Poverty rate24.9%
Median income$58,438
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
68
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kalamazoo and the region
Centroid at 42.2635, -85.5534 · click any tract to drill in
Why Milwood scores 7.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Kalamazoo
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
24.9% poverty · this tract
6.2
Supply constraint
$1,091 rent vs county FMR
4.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kalamazoo
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kalamazoo
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kalamazoo
8.4
How Milwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 48%Socioeconomic
- 27%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 11%Grade B
- 5%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 42Total filings over 2 yrs
- 4.34%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2016)
- 17Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Milwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.9%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.8%Food insecurity
- 19.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 34.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Milwood
roughly three in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Kalamazoo County average of 45.3%. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 25%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Court records carry 42 eviction filings across 2 observed years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 5.2% of renter households. 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.
In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Social vulnerability reads 5.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 26077001801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26077001801?
Census tract 26077001801 in the Milwood neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 26077001801?
Median gross rent is $1,091/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26077001801?
24.9% of residents in tract 26077001801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,016.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26077001801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 27th, minority 40th, housing 80th.
Q5
Is tract 26077001801 considered part of Milwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26077001801 fall within Milwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26077001801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 42 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 26077001801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.34% of renter households, peaking at 5.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 26077001801 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.9% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 10.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 26077001801 compare to Kalamazoo overall?
Tract 26077001801 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Kalamazoo at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kalamazoo eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 26077001801 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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