Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,240 of 84,120 nationally
Milwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kalamazoo
Tract 26077001801 · Kalamazoo County, MI · pop 4,016 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
How risky is the Milwood area of Kalamazoo for landlords? Census tract 26077001801 scores 7.2/10, the Elevated tier. That is riskier than about 97% of US census tracts.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 72% of renter households, a severe level, and 71% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,091 a month against an average household income of $58,438 a year, roughly 22% of income at the averages. Renters make up 39% of occupied homes.
Risk score
5.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 28%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,520
Renter share39.1%
SVI overall0.54
Poverty rate24.9%
Median income$58,438
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
52
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
82
th percentile
High
Within state
85
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kalamazoo and the region
Centroid at 42.2635, -85.5534 · click any tract to drill in
Why Milwood scores 5.5
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
24.9% poverty · this tract
6.2
Supply constraint
$1,091 rent vs county FMR
4.2
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 Milwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 54
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 48%Socioeconomic
- 27%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 11%Grade B
- 5%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 42Total filings over 2 yrs
- 4.34%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2016)
- 17Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Milwood. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 13.9%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.8%Food insecurity
- 19.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.8%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 34.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Milwood
The score leans hardest on 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.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of B ("Still Desirable"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
In CDC survey modeling, about 13.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.5% 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 26077001801
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26077001801?
Census tract 26077001801 in the Milwood neighborhood scores 5.5/10 (Moderate 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 26077001801?
Median gross rent is $1,091/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26077001801?
24.9% of residents in tract 26077001801 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,016.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26077001801?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 54th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 48th, household 27th, minority 40th, housing 80th.
Q5
Is tract 26077001801 considered part of Milwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26077001801 fall within Milwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26077001801?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 42 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 26077001801 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.34% of renter households, peaking at 5.2% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 26077001801 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.9% 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. 10.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 26077001801 compare to Kalamazoo overall?
Tract 26077001801 scores 5.5/10, higher than 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 26077001801 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. 0% 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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