Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally
Cambria Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55021970100 · Columbia County, WI · pop 4,246 · 10% of tract blocks fall in Cambria
55021970100 is a census tract in Cambria, WI. It scores 3.5/10 for landlords. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1.8/10.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,656
Renter share18.1%
SVI overall0.65
Poverty rate10.0%
Median income$81,071
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
National
31
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cambria and the region
Centroid at 43.5538, -89.1236 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cambria scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cambria
5.4
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.9
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
10.0% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$734 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cambria
4.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cambria
4.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cambria
4.6
How Cambria compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 65
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 58%Socioeconomic
- 53%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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)
- 74Total filings over 15 yrs
- 1.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2015)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 400% over the past 15 months.
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.
- 10.5%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.5%Food insecurity
- 14.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 9.0%No health insurance
- 17.0%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Cambria
Cost burden runs about one in five here against 28.2% across Columbia County. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.5/10.
The severe-burden share is 10%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.7/10.
The filing record is not thin: 74 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 6.0% of renter households.
In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 18% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.9/10.
Rent consumes only 11% of average household income of $81,071, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55021970100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55021970100?
Census tract 55021970100 in Cambria scores 3.5/10 (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 average rent in tract 55021970100?
Median gross rent is $734/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 19% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55021970100?
10.0% of residents in tract 55021970100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,246.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55021970100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 65th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 58th, household 53th, minority 15th, housing 87th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55021970100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 74 eviction filings across 15 validated years in tract 55021970100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.86% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 55021970100 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.5% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 55021970100 compare to Cambria overall?
Tract 55021970100 scores 3.5/10, higher than the parent city of Cambria at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cambria; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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