Third Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Grand Rapids

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Kent County average of 4.2.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.5/10. At $1,088 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Kentwood commands.

On the national scale it lands near the 74th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

41% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $53,611.

61% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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