Regent Eviction Risk: Lower , Madison

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

SNAP participation runs 3.3% against 15.2% nationally. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.

It sits 1.0 points below the Dane County average of 4.2. The filing record is not thin: 10 evictions over 6 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,211, 14% below the Madison average.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2009 at 0.5% of renter households. 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 0.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 25th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 18% 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.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.