Lake Edge Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The dominant input is local political climate at 8/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Average gross rent is $1,134, 20% below the Madison average.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 244 evictions over 13 years of observation.

Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.9 points. Filings peaked in 2012 at 5.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 3.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #31,049 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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 least pressured. Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $74,196.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.