Arcadia Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.

This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. SNAP participation runs 24.9% against 15.2% nationally.

40% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Kalamazoo County average of 45.3%. Food insecurity runs 25.2% against 17.8% nationally. At $955 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Kalamazoo commands.

Nationally it ranks #11,153 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.