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Prairie Hills Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

Tract 55025000407 · Dane County, WI · pop 5,115 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Tract 55025000407 sits in the Prairie Hills area of Madison eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.8/10. Population here is 5,115. Against Dane County at 41.3%, 17% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 27% Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units1,963
Renter share32.8%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate7.4%
Median income$76,402

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Prairie Hills
Moderate
Within parent city
48 th percentile
Rank, 48th percentileLowHigh
#38 of 72 tracts In Madison
Moderate
Within county
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#43 of 125 tracts In Dane County
Elevated
Within state
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#303 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Madison and the region

Centroid at 43.0402, -89.4893 · click any tract to drill in

Why Prairie Hills scores 4.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Madison
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
7.4% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,275 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Madison
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Madison
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Madison
5.5

How Prairie Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Prairie Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.8This tracttract 0004074.6Madisonparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 44

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)

  • 1,010Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 7.95%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.5%Peak (2011)
  • 67Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55025000407
Filings climbed 76% over the past 13 months.
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 Prairie Hills

Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.

The filing record is not thin: 1,010 evictions over 13 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally.

At $1,275 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Madison commands. The worst year on record was 2011, when 12.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 8.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.9/10.

Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Dane County average of 4.2 closely. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $76,402.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 55025000407

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025000407?

Census tract 55025000407 in the Prairie Hills neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 55025000407?

Median gross rent is $1,275/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 17% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55025000407?

7.4% of residents in tract 55025000407 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,115.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55025000407?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 72th, minority 68th, housing 12th.
Q5

Is tract 55025000407 considered part of Prairie Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025000407 fall within Prairie Hills (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025000407?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,010 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025000407 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.95% of renter households, peaking at 12.5% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55025000407 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.5% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55025000407 compare to Madison overall?

Tract 55025000407 scores 4.8/10, right in line with the parent city of Madison at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Madison eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Madison

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

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