Westmorland Eviction Risk: Lower , Madison

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. At $1,814 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Madison commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

The voucher gap is 23.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Housing insecurity runs 4.6% against 14.2% nationally.

Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Court records carry 15 eviction filings across 8 observed years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2002, when 3.9% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Madison. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #63,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 21% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

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