Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally
Bram's Addition Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison
Tract 55025001401 · Dane County, WI · pop 6,606 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 55025001401 covers part of the Bram's Addition area of Madison, WI, and scores 6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,606 residents. It sits 1.8 points above the Dane County average of 4.2.
Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 31%
Stable renters 36%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units3,076
Renter share66.6%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate17.4%
Median income$49,959
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
79
th percentile
High
Within county
94
th percentile
Very High
Within state
100
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Madison and the region
Centroid at 43.0430, -89.3861 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bram's Addition scores 6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
17.4% poverty · this tract
4.3
Supply constraint
$1,145 rent vs county FMR
2.8
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 Bram's Addition compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 80%Socioeconomic
- 43%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 94%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 13%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 1,514Total filings over 13 yrs
- 6.19%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.5%Peak (2010)
- 54Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% 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.
- 18.1%Housing insecurity
- 9.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.4%Food insecurity
- 23.2%SNAP enrollment
- 12.1%Transit barriers
- 15.3%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 30.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bram's Addition
The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.
The severe-burden share is 14%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,145 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Madison commands. 47% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Dane County average of 41.3%.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.8/10. Court records carry 1,514 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
SNAP participation runs 23.2% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2010, when 9.5% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 6.2% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.6/10.
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 55025001401
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025001401?
Census tract 55025001401 in the Bram's Addition neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 55025001401?
Median gross rent is $1,145/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55025001401?
17.4% of residents in tract 55025001401 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,606.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55025001401?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 80th, household 43th, minority 71th, housing 94th.
Q5
Is tract 55025001401 considered part of Bram's Addition?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025001401 fall within Bram's Addition (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025001401?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,514 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025001401 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.19% of renter households, peaking at 9.5% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 55025001401 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.1% 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. 9.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 55025001401 compare to Madison overall?
Tract 55025001401 scores 6/10, higher than 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.
Q9
Was tract 55025001401 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 13% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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