Third Ward Eviction Risk: Lower , Grand Rapids

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

Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.8 points below the Kent County average of 4.2. Average gross rent is $1,150, 9% below the Grand Rapids average. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 #59,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $90,000, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 0.8 points cooler.

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.