Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Shady Park Neighbourhood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Muskegon
Tract 26121000401 · Muskegon County, MI · pop 4,781 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Census tract 26121000401 covers part of the Shady Park Neighbourhood area of Muskegon, MI, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.6/10.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,740
Renter share35.7%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate17.0%
Median income$55,000
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
36
th percentile
Low
Within county
77
th percentile
High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Muskegon and the region
Centroid at 43.2291, -86.2162 · click any tract to drill in
Why Shady Park Neighbourhood scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Muskegon
4.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.0
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
17.0% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,134 rent vs county FMR
4.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Muskegon
7.1
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Muskegon
8.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Muskegon
7.5
How Shady Park Neighbourhood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 84%Household composition
- 70%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%Grade C
- 71%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 1,084Total filings over 8 yrs
- 20.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 29.9%Peak (2018)
- 173Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 52% over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Shady Park Neighbourhood. 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.
- 20.5%Housing insecurity
- 15.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 26.0%Food insecurity
- 27.2%SNAP enrollment
- 13.3%Transit barriers
- 10.1%No health insurance
- 20.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Shady Park Neighbourhood
Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.
Against the Muskegon County average of 4.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. On the high side, housing-court posture reads 7.5/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,084 filings here across 8 tracked years. Food insecurity runs 26.0% against 17.8% nationally.
Average gross rent is $1,134, 14% above the Muskegon average. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2018, when 29.9% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. In a typical year about 20.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8/10. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 26121000401
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26121000401?
Census tract 26121000401 in the Shady Park Neighbourhood neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 26121000401?
Median gross rent is $1,134/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 26121000401?
17.0% of residents in tract 26121000401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,781.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 26121000401?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 84th, minority 70th, housing 58th.
Q5
Is tract 26121000401 considered part of Shady Park Neighbourhood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 26121000401 fall within Shady Park Neighbourhood (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26121000401?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,084 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 26121000401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 20.64% of renter households, peaking at 29.9% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 26121000401 struggle to pay rent?
About 20.5% 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. 15.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 26121000401 compare to Muskegon overall?
Tract 26121000401 scores 5.3/10, higher than the parent city of Muskegon at 4.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Muskegon eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 26121000401 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 71% 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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5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.9
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.7
/ 10 · Elevated
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5.3
/ 10 · Moderate
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5.1
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