Portage Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.3/10. It sits 1.7 points below the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8. Against Kalamazoo County at 45.3%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Average gross rent is $1,317, 16% above the Portage average. Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 33 filings here across 2 tracked years.

SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 6.9/10.

The worst year on record was 2018, when 2.1% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.2/10. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.