Whitetail Ridge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

At $972 a month, rents run 31% under what the rest of Madison commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 818 filings here across 13 tracked years. It sits 0.9 points above the Dane County average of 4.2.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 15.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 9.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Against average income of $83,818, annual rent is just 14%. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.