Kentwood Eviction Risk: Moderate

70% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10.

Cost burden runs 52% here against 43.7% across Kent County. It sits 1.4 points above the Kent County average of 4.2.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. Average gross rent is $1,058, 16% below the Kentwood average. That is riskier than roughly 73% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $48,023.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.