Tract 26159010600 Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26159010600 · Van Buren County, MI · pop 2,535
Census tract 26159010600 sits in Van Buren, Michigan eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 6.2/10. On the national scale it ranks #16,582 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
72% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $955 a month against an average household income of $36,045 a year, roughly 32% of income at the averages. About 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Van Buren County and the region
Centroid at 42.2862, -86.2894 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tract 26159010600 scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Tract 26159010600 compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 74%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
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)
- 17Total filings over 1 yrs
- 3.68%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.7%Peak (2016)
- 17Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 22.9%Housing insecurity
- 17.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.5%Food insecurity
- 33.9%SNAP enrollment
- 16.0%Transit barriers
- 16.8%No health insurance
- 20.5%Frequent mental distress
- 44.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Tract 26159010600
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 6.6/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are set by Michigan eviction laws law, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Van Buren County average of 5.7 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 98th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 22.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 17.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.