Oakland/Winchell Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kalamazoo

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.4/10. Food insecurity runs 6.8% against 17.8% nationally. Against Kalamazoo County at 45.3%, roughly one in two of renters here are cost-burdened.

SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally. Court records carry 49 eviction filings across 2 observed years. Filings peaked in 2018 at 8.2% of renter households.

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. In a typical year about 5.4% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 21% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $120,813, annual rent is just 11%.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.