Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

Cost burden runs 60% here against 43.7% across Kent County. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.

Food insecurity runs 36.1% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The poverty rate is 26%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Against the Kent County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,086, 14% below the Grand Rapids average.

This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Grand Rapids. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 8.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $58,357.

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.