Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally
Plainwell Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26005032000 · Allegan County, MI · pop 5,382 · 32% of tract blocks fall in Plainwell
26005032000 is a census tract in Plainwell, MI. It scores 5.2/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,382 residents. Against Allegan County at 27.8%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units1,986
Renter share25.6%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate17.7%
Median income$68,864
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
76
th percentile
High
National
65
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Plainwell and the region
Centroid at 42.4868, -85.6045 · click any tract to drill in
Why Plainwell scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Plainwell
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.7
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
17.7% poverty · this tract
4.4
Supply constraint
$1,060 rent vs county FMR
4.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Plainwell
6.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Plainwell
6.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Plainwell
6.2
How Plainwell compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 46%Household composition
- 23%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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)
- 464Total filings over 8 yrs
- 10.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.6%Peak (2014)
- 29Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 51% over the past 8 months.
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.
- 11.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.7%Food insecurity
- 15.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.6%Transit barriers
- 7.0%No health insurance
- 18.9%Frequent mental distress
- 34.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Plainwell
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.9/10. Against the Allegan County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
At $1,060 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Plainwell commands. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 3/10. The filing record is not thin: 464 evictions over 8 years of observation.
8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The worst year on record was 2014, when 12.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 10.7% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.
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 26005032000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26005032000?
Census tract 26005032000 in Plainwell scores 5.2/10 (Moderate 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 average rent in tract 26005032000?
Median gross rent is $1,060/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26005032000?
17.7% of residents in tract 26005032000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,382.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26005032000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 46th, minority 23th, housing 89th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26005032000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 464 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 26005032000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.74% of renter households, peaking at 12.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 26005032000 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.5% 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. 8.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 26005032000 compare to Plainwell overall?
Tract 26005032000 scores 5.2/10, higher than the parent city of Plainwell at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Plainwell; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Plainwell
Top eight tracts in Plainwell ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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