Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26081002700 · Kent County, MI · pop 3,323
Census tract 26081002700 covers part of Grand Rapids, MI, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,323 residents. Cost burden runs 63% here against 43.7% across Kent County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Grand Rapids and the region
Centroid at 42.9524, -85.7026 · click any tract to drill in
Why Grand Rapids scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Grand Rapids compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 50
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 78%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 39%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 4%Grade C
- 11%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.6%Housing insecurity
- 8.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.2%Food insecurity
- 14.1%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 9.4%No health insurance
- 20.8%Frequent mental distress
- 26.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Grand Rapids
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.2/10. 28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. At $1,566 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of Grand Rapids commands.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Kent County average of 4.2 closely.
Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $73,581. 56% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Grand Rapids
Top eight tracts in Grand Rapids ranked by composite eviction-risk score.