Godwin Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wyoming
Tract 26081004600 · Kent County, MI · pop 5,789 · neighborhood within 1.5 mi
With a score of 5.4/10, tract 26081004600 in the Godwin Heights area of Grand Rapids, MI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,789 residents. Severe burden reaches 40%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
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Centroid at 42.9008, -85.6359 · click any tract to drill in
Why Godwin Heights scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Godwin Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 99%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 90%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Godwin Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 22.9%Housing insecurity
- 17.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.9%Food insecurity
- 31.7%SNAP enrollment
- 15.6%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 20.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Godwin Heights
78% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well clear of the Kent County average of 43.7%. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.
SNAP participation runs 31.7% against 15.2% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.5/10. It sits 1.2 points above the Kent County average of 4.2.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Average gross rent is $1,051, 17% below the Grand Rapids average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, 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 household composition 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.
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