Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. At $1,685 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Grand Rapids commands.

Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. Against Kent County at 43.7%, about half of renters here are cost-burdened.

The voucher gap is 16.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.9/10.

Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 46th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 15% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.8/10.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Kent County average of 4.2 closely.

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.