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Echo Valley Eviction Risk: Moderate , Waverly

Tract 26045020303 · Eaton County, MI · pop 3,167 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 26045020303 covers part of the Echo Valley area of Waverly, MI, and scores 4.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,167 residents. Cost burden runs 20% here against 35.6% across Eaton County.

Risk score
4.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7% Stable renters 29% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,595
Renter share36.6%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate7.1%
Median income$68,385

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Echo Valley
Moderate
Within parent city
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 8 tracts In Waverly
Elevated
Within county
54 th percentile
Rank, 54th percentileLowHigh
#14 of 29 tracts In Eaton County
Moderate
Within state
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#1,244 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Waverly and the region

Centroid at 42.7154, -84.6560 · click any tract to drill in

Why Echo Valley scores 4.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Waverly
5.2
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
7.1% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$1,164 rent vs county FMR
5.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Waverly
3.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Waverly
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Waverly
4.0

How Echo Valley compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Echo Valley risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.2This tracttract 0203034.0Waverlyparent city4.0Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 15

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 475Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 8.06%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.0%Peak (2018)
  • 89Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2010 to 2018
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 26045020303
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 8 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Echo Valley

The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9/10. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.6/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.8/10.

10% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 475 evictions over 8 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2018, when 12.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 8.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Eaton County average of 4.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $1,164, close to the Waverly average. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $68,385.

37% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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 26045020303

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26045020303?

Census tract 26045020303 in the Echo Valley neighborhood scores 4.2/10 (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 26045020303?

Median gross rent is $1,164/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 20% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26045020303?

7.1% of residents in tract 26045020303 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,167.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26045020303?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 20th, household 12th, minority 29th, housing 31th.
Q5

Is tract 26045020303 considered part of Echo Valley?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26045020303 fall within Echo Valley (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26045020303?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 475 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 26045020303 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.06% of renter households, peaking at 12.0% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 26045020303 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.5% 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. 6.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 26045020303 compare to Waverly overall?

Tract 26045020303 scores 4.2/10, right in line with the parent city of Waverly at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Waverly eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Waverly

Top eight tracts in Waverly ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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