Sparta Eviction Risk: Lower

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. It sits 1.2 points below the Kent County average of 4.2.

At $837 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Sparta commands. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 9% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 10% of average household income of $98,854, 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 household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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