Third Ward Eviction Risk: Moderate , Grand Rapids

At $1,761 a month, rents run 39% over what the rest of Grand Rapids commands. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.

Against Kent County at 43.7%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. The voucher gap is 22.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Sitting well above the midpoint, supply constraint reads 7.2/10. 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 #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing 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 $82,500. 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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