Arcadia Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 46%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

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

89% 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. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $45,172, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Average gross rent is $1,390, 29% above the Kalamazoo average. Food insecurity runs 33.5% against 17.8% nationally.

The voucher gap is 17.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Kalamazoo. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

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

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.