Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Milwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo
Tract 26077001802 · Kalamazoo County, MI · pop 4,620 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Tract 26077001802 sits in the Milwood area of Kalamazoo eviction risk, MI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6/10. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units1,803
Renter share46.8%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$62,171
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
66
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
95
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Kalamazoo and the region
Centroid at 42.2465, -85.5524 · click any tract to drill in
Why Milwood scores 6
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
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,013 rent vs county FMR
3.6
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: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 71%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 3%Grade B
- 7%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)
- 335Total filings over 2 yrs
- 17.24%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.1%Peak (2018)
- 186Filings 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.
- 13.2%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.5%Food insecurity
- 15.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.1%Transit barriers
- 7.1%No health insurance
- 19.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Milwood
The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10.
Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8. The filing record is not thin: 335 evictions over 2 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 19.1% of renter households. 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.
In a typical year about 17.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10.
Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter. Rent takes 30% or more of income for roughly one in two of renters.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 26077001802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26077001802?
Census tract 26077001802 in the Milwood neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 26077001802?
Median gross rent is $1,013/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26077001802?
10.3% of residents in tract 26077001802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,620.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26077001802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 50th, minority 44th, housing 71th.
Q5
Is tract 26077001802 considered part of Milwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26077001802 fall within Milwood (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26077001802?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 335 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 26077001802 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.24% of renter households, peaking at 19.1% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 26077001802 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.2% 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. 9.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 26077001802 compare to Kalamazoo overall?
Tract 26077001802 scores 6/10, right in line with the parent city of Kalamazoo at 5.9/10. 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 26077001802 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Kalamazoo
Top eight tracts in Kalamazoo ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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South Westnedge
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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Vine
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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Milwood
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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Arcadia
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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Eastwood
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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Edison
7.3
/ 10 · Elevated
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