Vine Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.5 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. 76% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

SNAP participation runs 26.8% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 25.5% against 17.8% nationally. At $978 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Kalamazoo commands.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 6.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 3.1 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

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