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Neighborhood · Ranked #45,786 of 84,120 nationally

East Buckeye Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

Tract 55025003100 · Dane County, WI · pop 6,062 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

Census tract 55025003100 covers part of the East Buckeye area of Madison, WI, and scores 4.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
4.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 5% Owners 89%
Tract context
Occupied units2,500
Renter share11.0%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate7.2%
Median income$97,542

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In East Buckeye
Moderate
Within parent city
28 th percentile
Rank, 28th percentileLowHigh
#52 of 72 tracts In Madison
Low
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#61 of 125 tracts In Dane County
Moderate
Within state
66 th percentile
Rank, 66th percentileLowHigh
#517 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Madison and the region

Centroid at 43.0678, -89.3011 · click any tract to drill in

Why East Buckeye scores 4.2

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
7.2% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$1,426 rent vs county FMR
4.7
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 East Buckeye compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
East Buckeye risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.2This tracttract 0031004.6Madisonparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 20

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 654Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 13.04%Avg annual filing rate
  • 26.6%Peak (2012)
  • 40Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55025003100
Filings climbed 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in East Buckeye

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.8/10. Against Dane County at 41.3%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Court records carry 654 eviction filings across 13 observed years.

Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2012, when 26.6% of renter households were served. 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 13.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 11% 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.

Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $97,542, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

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 55025003100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025003100?

Census tract 55025003100 in the East Buckeye neighborhood scores 4.2/10 (Moderate 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 55025003100?

Median gross rent is $1,426/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55025003100?

7.2% of residents in tract 55025003100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,062.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55025003100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 26th, minority 31th, housing 14th.
Q5

Is tract 55025003100 considered part of East Buckeye?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025003100 fall within East Buckeye (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025003100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 654 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025003100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.04% of renter households, peaking at 26.6% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55025003100 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.7% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55025003100 compare to Madison overall?

Tract 55025003100 scores 4.2/10, lower 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 55025003100 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. 2% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Madison

Top eight tracts in Madison ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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