Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10. Cost burden runs 56% here against 43.7% across Kent County. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10.

The poverty rate is 27%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Food insecurity runs 29.7% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Kent County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.4/10. Average gross rent is $1,070, 15% below the Grand Rapids average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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