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Neighborhood · Ranked #11,153 of 84,120 nationally

Northside Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

Tract 26077000300 · Kalamazoo County, MI · pop 3,990 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Tract 26077000300 sits in the Northside area of Kalamazoo eviction risk, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.3/10. It is home to 3,990 residents. SNAP participation runs 50.8% against 15.2% nationally.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28% Stable renters 36% Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,456
Renter share63.5%
SVI overall0.88
Poverty rate32.0%
Median income$38,444

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Northside
Very Low
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 26 tracts In Kalamazoo
High
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#12 of 68 tracts In Kalamazoo County
High
Within state
99 th percentile
Rank, 99th percentileLowHigh
#33 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Kalamazoo and the region

Centroid at 42.3051, -85.5938 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northside scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Kalamazoo
6.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
32.0% poverty · this tract
8.0
Supply constraint
$859 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Kalamazoo
8.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Kalamazoo
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Kalamazoo
8.4

How Northside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northside risk score vs. parent city / county / state7.3This tracttract 0003005.9Kalamazooparent city4.8Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 88

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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)

  • 367Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 20.93%Avg annual filing rate
  • 21.6%Peak (2018)
  • 189Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Northside. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Northside

Food insecurity runs 45.7% against 17.8% nationally. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.

24% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. At $859 a month, rents run 20% under what the rest of Kalamazoo commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 367 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2018 at 21.6% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. In a typical year about 20.9% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 87% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 8.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 26077000300

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26077000300?

Census tract 26077000300 in the Northside neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated 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 26077000300?

Median gross rent is $859/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26077000300?

32.0% of residents in tract 26077000300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,990.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26077000300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 88th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 92th, minority 91th, housing 60th.
Q5

Is tract 26077000300 considered part of Northside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26077000300 fall within Northside (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26077000300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 367 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 26077000300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 20.93% of renter households, peaking at 21.6% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 26077000300 struggle to pay rent?

About 33.5% 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. 27.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 26077000300 compare to Kalamazoo overall?

Tract 26077000300 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Kalamazoo at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Kalamazoo eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9

Was tract 26077000300 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Kalamazoo

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

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