Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

Food insecurity runs 37.3% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. 68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Adults with no health insurance runs 23.5% against 11.3% nationally.

It sits 1.2 points above the Kent County average of 4.2. 39% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Kent County average of 43.7%. Running hot, economic stress reads 6.9/10.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 9.8/10 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.

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