Third Ward Eviction Risk: Lower , Grand Rapids

The voucher gap is 59.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.2/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.1/10. At $2,307 a month, rents run 24% over what the rest of East Grand Rapids commands.

SNAP participation runs 3.8% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 1.2 points below the Kent County average of 4.2.

Adults with no health insurance runs 2.9% against 11.3% nationally. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

At 3% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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