Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #51,553 of 84,120 nationally
Westnedge Hill Eviction Risk: Lower , Kalamazoo
Tract 26077001200 · Kalamazoo County, MI · pop 2,661 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
How risky is the Westnedge Hill neighborhood of Kalamazoo for landlords? Census tract 26077001200 scores 6.7/10, the Elevated tier. On the national scale it ranks #8,178 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 46% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 37% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,264 monthly, set against $106,172 in average yearly household income, roughly 14% of income at the averages. Renters make up 14% of occupied homes.
Risk score
3.4
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 8%
Owners 85%
Tract context
Occupied units1,182
Renter share14.1%
SVI overall0.05
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$106,172
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
4
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
48
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kalamazoo and the region
Centroid at 42.2682, -85.6021 · click any tract to drill in
Why Westnedge Hill scores 3.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$1,264 rent vs county FMR
5.7
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 Westnedge Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 9%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 15%Grade A
- 22%Grade B
- 17%Grade C
- 1%Grade D · redlined
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)
- 29Total filings over 2 yrs
- 6.17%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.8%Peak (2018)
- 16Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
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.
- 5.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 6.6%Food insecurity
- 5.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 3.5%No health insurance
- 13.9%Frequent mental distress
- 21.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Westnedge Hill
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 9.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Kalamazoo eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Kalamazoo County average of 6.2 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 5th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 5.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.6% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
Frequently asked
About tract 26077001200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26077001200?
Census tract 26077001200 in the Westnedge Hill neighborhood scores 3.4/10 (Lower 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 26077001200?
Median gross rent is $1,264/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26077001200?
8.1% of residents in tract 26077001200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,661.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26077001200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 5th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 9th, household 8th, minority 28th, housing 13th.
Q5
Is tract 26077001200 considered part of Westnedge Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26077001200 fall within Westnedge Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26077001200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 26077001200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.17% of renter households, peaking at 6.8% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 26077001200 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.9% 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. 4.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 26077001200 compare to Kalamazoo overall?
Tract 26077001200 scores 3.4/10, right in line with the parent city of Kalamazoo at 3.5/10. 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 26077001200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 1% 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.
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