Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Lower

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Kent County average of 43.7%. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.2/10.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.7/10. Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Grand Rapids. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 5% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 1.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Kent County average of 4.2 closely. Average gross rent is $1,244, close to the Grand Rapids average.

Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $82,176.

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.