Within county
24
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Tract 26139021301 Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 26139021301 · Ottawa County, MI · pop 3,960
26139021301 is a census tract in Ottawa County, MI. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Cost burden runs about one in five here against 38.7% across Ottawa County.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 65% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 1%
Stable renters 5%
Owners 94%
Tract context
Occupied units1,145
Renter share5.9%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate2.3%
Median income$100,413
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within state
26
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Ottawa County and the region
Centroid at 43.0195, -86.0887 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 26139021301 scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
State baseline
3.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
2.3% poverty · this tract
1.0
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 26139021301 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 25%Socioeconomic
- 57%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 48%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 2Total filings over 1 yrs
- 1.98%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.0%Peak (2018)
- 2Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.6%Food insecurity
- 9.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 5.7%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tract 26139021301
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. The filing record is not thin: 2 evictions over 1 years of observation.
Against the Ottawa County average of 3.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Food insecurity runs 10.6% against 17.8% nationally. Filings peaked in 2018 at 2.0% of renter households.
In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 6% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 26139021301
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26139021301?
Census tract 26139021301 in Ottawa County scores 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 26139021301?
2.3% of residents in tract 26139021301 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,960.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 26139021301?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 25th, household 57th, minority 22th, housing 48th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26139021301?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 2 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 26139021301 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.98% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
What share of households in tract 26139021301 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.8% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
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