Edison Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

SNAP participation runs 44.1% against 15.2% nationally. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Food insecurity runs 40.2% against 17.8% nationally.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points.

At $1,349 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Kalamazoo commands. 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 voucher gap is 14.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 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 81st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7/10.

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.