Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally
West Main Hill Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo
Tract 26077001504 · Kalamazoo County, MI · pop 4,485 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 26077001504 sits in the West Main Hill area of Kalamazoo eviction risk, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.3/10. 56% 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 73%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 16%
Tract context
Occupied units322
Renter share83.5%
SVI overall0.52
Poverty rate63.7%
Median income$21,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
44
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
88
th percentile
High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kalamazoo and the region
Centroid at 42.2833, -85.6114 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Main Hill 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
63.7% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$795 rent vs county FMR
1.7
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 West Main Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 85%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 5%Grade B
- 10%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 5Total filings over 1 yrs
- 1.97%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2016)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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.
- 20.9%Housing insecurity
- 16.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 36.5%Food insecurity
- 36.0%SNAP enrollment
- 23.3%Transit barriers
- 10.6%No health insurance
- 32.3%Frequent mental distress
- 40.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in West Main Hill
87% 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 economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 64%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Set annual rent against average income of $21,250 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10.
This is renter territory: 84% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. Food insecurity runs 36.5% against 17.8% nationally.
Average gross rent is $795, 26% below the Kalamazoo average. The filing record is not thin: 5 evictions over 1 years of observation.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 26077001504
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26077001504?
Census tract 26077001504 in the West Main Hill 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 26077001504?
Median gross rent is $795/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 87% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26077001504?
63.7% of residents in tract 26077001504 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,485.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26077001504?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 85th, household 1th, minority 50th, housing 74th.
Q5
Is tract 26077001504 considered part of West Main Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26077001504 fall within West Main Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26077001504?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 5 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 26077001504 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.97% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 26077001504 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.9% 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. 16.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 26077001504 compare to Kalamazoo overall?
Tract 26077001504 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 26077001504 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 1% 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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7.3
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