Muskegon Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 26121000300 · Muskegon County, MI · pop 3,197
In Muskegon, census tract 26121000300 scores $1/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than about 94% of US census tracts.
58% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 40% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $836 a month while the average household earns $34,238 a year, roughly 29% of income at the averages. Renters make up 49% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Muskegon and the region
Centroid at 43.2327, -86.2315 · click any tract to drill in
Why Muskegon scores 5.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Muskegon compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%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
- 63%Grade C
- 11%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.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 1,442Total filings over 8 yrs
- 25.56%Avg annual filing rate
- 32.4%Peak (2012)
- 174Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 30.8%Housing insecurity
- 25.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.2%Food insecurity
- 48.4%SNAP enrollment
- 21.1%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 23.6%Frequent mental distress
- 45.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Muskegon
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 8.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Muskegon eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Muskegon County average of 5.9 and above the Michigan statewide average of 5.7. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Part of this tract, about 11% of its area, sat in the redlined grade-D zone on 1930s HOLC maps, though its dominant grade was C ("Declining"). That lending history still correlates with present-day rent burden.
The tract is racially mixed and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 26121000300
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Highest-risk tracts in Muskegon
Top eight tracts in Muskegon ranked by composite eviction-risk score.