Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

Against Kent County at 43.7%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10. At $792 a month, rents run 37% under what the rest of Grand Rapids commands.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

Against the Kent County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.7/10. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $48,827. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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