Heritage Hill Historic District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Grand Rapids

The poverty rate is 59%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Average gross rent is $725, 43% below the Grand Rapids average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 31.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Set annual rent against average income of $19,308 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 9.2/10. This is renter territory: 85% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 17%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 1.2 points above the Kent County average of 4.2.

Adults with no health insurance runs 21.2% against 11.3% nationally. 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.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. 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 most pressured.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.