Edison Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kalamazoo

27% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10.

Food insecurity runs 27.2% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 104 evictions over 2 years of observation.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2018 at 22.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Kalamazoo. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 19.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 25% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

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