Portage Eviction Risk: Lower

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.3/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.2/10.

12% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 145 filings here across 2 tracked years. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 6.9/10.

Average gross rent is $1,010, 11% below the Portage average. Filings peaked in 2016 at 5.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 5.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Against average income of $71,622, annual rent is just 17%. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

60% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.