Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Lower

30% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Kent County average of 43.7%. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

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 cool, economic stress reads 2/10. Average gross rent is $1,466, 16% above the Grand Rapids average.

Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally.

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. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 3.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Kent County average of 4.2 closely. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $82,241.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.