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East Buckeye Eviction Risk: Lower , Madison

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

In East Buckeye in Madison, census tract 55025003100 scores 5.1/10 for eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 40% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.

About 51% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 26% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,426 a month against an average household income of $97,542 a year, roughly 18% of income at the averages. Renters make up 11% of occupied homes.

Risk score
3.9
Lower
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
32 th percentile
Rank, 32nd percentileLowHigh
#49 of 72 tracts In Madison
Low
Within county
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#50 of 125 tracts In Dane County
Elevated
Within state
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#492 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 3.9

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 / stateThis tract: 3.93.9This tracttract 003100Madison: 3.63.6Madisonparent cityCounty: 3.53.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.43.4Stateavg 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 550250031002001: 24 filings (5.15/100 renter HHs)2002: 21 filings (4.51/100 renter HHs)2007: 36 filings (9.60/100 renter HHs)2008: 67 filings (17.87/100 renter HHs)2009: 58 filings (15.47/100 renter HHs)2010: 60 filings (12.88/100 renter HHs)2011: 59 filings (16.34/100 renter HHs)2012: 96 filings (26.59/100 renter HHs)2013: 57 filings (15.79/100 renter HHs)2014: 43 filings (11.91/100 renter HHs)2015: 43 filings (11.91/100 renter HHs)2016: 50 filings (11.93/100 renter HHs)2017: 40 filings (9.55/100 renter HHs)
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 heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Madison eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.

Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Dane County average of 4.8 and above the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 654 eviction filings here over 13 tracked years, with about 13.0% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 26.6% of renter households in 2012.

The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 20th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.

For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.

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 3.9/10 (Lower 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 3.9/10, higher than the parent city of Madison at 3.6/10. 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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