First Settlement Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

82% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.

The score leans hardest on local political climate at 8/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. At $1,269 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Madison commands.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.8/10.

Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 2.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 43% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $58,136.

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.