Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $365 a month, rents run 71% under what the rest of Grand Rapids commands. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Against the Kent County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. 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 59th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 6% of average household income of $73,224, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.