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Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Jenison Eviction Risk: Lower

Tract 26139021605 · Ottawa County, MI · pop 4,079 · 19% of tract blocks fall in Jenison

Census tract 26139021605 covers part of Jenison, MI, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 54%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 2% Stable renters 1% Owners 97%
Tract context
Occupied units1,285
Renter share2.7%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate5.3%
Median income$119,073

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 4 tracts In Jenison
Very Low
Within county
30 th percentile
Rank, 30th percentileLowHigh
#45 of 64 tracts In Ottawa County
Low
Within state
26 th percentile
Rank, 26th percentileLowHigh
#2,190 of 2,972 tracts In Michigan
Low
National
20 th percentile
Rank, 20th percentileLowHigh
#67,219 of 84,120 tracts In U.S.
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Jenison and the region

Centroid at 42.9385, -85.8175 · click any tract to drill in

Why Jenison scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Jenison
5.8
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.9
State political climate
Michigan legislature & governorship
3.3
Economic stress
5.3% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Jenison
9.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.8
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Jenison
3.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Jenison
6.1

How Jenison compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Jenison risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0216054.0Jenisonparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county4.2Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 9

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

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)

  • 1Total filings over 1 yrs
  • 5.88%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.9%Peak (2018)
  • 1Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

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 Jenison

Cost burden runs 77% here against 38.7% across Ottawa County. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.2/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.1/10.

On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.3/10. Food insecurity runs 8.6% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1 filings here across 1 tracked years.

SNAP participation runs 7.2% against 15.2% nationally. It sits 0.8 points below the Ottawa County average of 3.8. The worst year on record was 2018, when 5.9% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 5.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. 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 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the MI average is 4.2, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 26139021605

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 26139021605?

Census tract 26139021605 in Jenison scores 3/10 (Lower 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 poverty rate in tract 26139021605?

5.3% of residents in tract 26139021605 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,079.
Q3

How socially vulnerable is tract 26139021605?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 17th, minority 31th, housing 23th.
Q4

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 26139021605?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1 eviction filings across 1 validated years in tract 26139021605 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.88% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5

What share of households in tract 26139021605 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.3% 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. 5.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6

How does tract 26139021605 compare to Jenison overall?

Tract 26139021605 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Jenison at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Jenison; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Jenison

Top eight tracts in Jenison ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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