Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Lower

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 6.6% against 15.2% 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 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $90,357, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. 46% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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