Within county
27
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 26081010302 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 26081010302 · Kent County, MI · pop 6,031
26081010302 is a census tract in Kent County, MI. It scores 3.3/10 for landlords. It is home to 6,031 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 2%
Owners 97%
Tract context
Occupied units2,270
Renter share2.6%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate6.6%
Median income$87,823
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
35
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kent County and the region
Centroid at 43.2555, -85.6059 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 26081010302 scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
3.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
6.6% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
State baseline
3.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
State baseline
4.0
Housing court bias
State baseline
5.0
How Tract 26081010302 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 20
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 16%Socioeconomic
- 63%Household composition
- 13%Racial/ethnic minority
- 23%Housing & transportation
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.2%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 9.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 5.9%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 27.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 26081010302
Against Kent County at 43.7%, 32% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.7/10.
Against the Kent County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.9 points. That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 3% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Model confidence here is 65%, lower than typical because some ACS inputs for this tract carry wide margins of error, so read the score as a band, not a point.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 26081010302
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26081010302?
Census tract 26081010302 in Kent County scores 3.3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the poverty rate in tract 26081010302?
6.6% of residents in tract 26081010302 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,031.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 26081010302?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 16th, household 63th, minority 13th, housing 23th.
Q4
What share of households in tract 26081010302 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.2% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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