Grand Rapids Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

Against the Kent County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points. At $1,406 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Grand Rapids commands.

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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.4/10.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $112,621, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

Of its three components the housing type and transport 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.