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Godwin Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wyoming

Tract 26081014000 · Kent County, MI · pop 7,309 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

With a score of 4.1/10, tract 26081014000 in the Godwin Heights area of Wyoming, MI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 7,309. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.2/10.

Risk score
4.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 19% Owners 63%
Tract context
Occupied units2,750
Renter share36.9%
SVI overall0.61
Poverty rate5.9%
Median income$69,717

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 7 tracts In Godwin Heights
Very Low
Within parent city
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#13 of 18 tracts In Wyoming
Low
Within county
51 th percentile
Rank, 51st percentileLowHigh
#71 of 145 tracts In Kent County
Moderate
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#1,318 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Wyoming and the region

Centroid at 42.8917, -85.6918 · click any tract to drill in

Why Godwin Heights scores 4.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Wyoming
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.3
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
5.9% poverty · this tract
1.5
Supply constraint
$882 rent vs county FMR
1.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wyoming
6.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wyoming
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wyoming
6.1

How Godwin Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Godwin Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.1This tracttract 0140004.2Wyomingparent city4.2Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 61

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Godwin Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Godwin Heights

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.1/10. Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.5/10.

At $882 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Wyoming commands. Against Kent County at 43.7%, 49% of renters here are cost-burdened. 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.

That is riskier than roughly 44% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 6.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $69,717, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the Kent County average of 4.2 closely.

37% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 26081014000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26081014000?

Census tract 26081014000 in the Godwin Heights neighborhood scores 4.1/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 26081014000?

Median gross rent is $882/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 26081014000?

5.9% of residents in tract 26081014000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 7,309.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 26081014000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 61th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 51th, household 51th, minority 54th, housing 74th.
Q5

Is tract 26081014000 considered part of Godwin Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26081014000 fall within Godwin Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 26081014000 struggle to pay rent?

About 14.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 26081014000 compare to Wyoming overall?

Tract 26081014000 scores 4.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Wyoming at 4.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wyoming eviction laws; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 26081014000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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