Third Ward Eviction Risk: Lower , Grand Rapids

Severe burden reaches 22%. 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.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.1/10. Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally.

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. That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $82,216, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.

about half of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the Kent County average of 4.2 closely.

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