Westwood Eviction Risk: Elevated , Kalamazoo

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.3/10. This is renter territory: 86% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Against the Kalamazoo County average of 4.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

At $1,252 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Kalamazoo commands. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 47% of renters.

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.