Northside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. Annualized rent equals 46% of average household income of $25,750, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 41%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 26.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Disability prevalence runs 44.3% against 31.5% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 91 filings here across 2 tracked years.

At $979 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Kalamazoo commands. The worst year on record was 2016, when 35.3% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

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.