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Neighborhood · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally

Royal Oaks Eviction Risk: Lower , Sun Prairie

Tract 55025011504 · Dane County, WI · pop 5,588 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Census tract 55025011504 covers part of the Royal Oaks area of Sun Prairie, WI, and scores 3.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,588. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.2/10.

Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 27% Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units2,346
Renter share45.4%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$100,024

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Royal Oaks
Moderate
Within parent city
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 7 tracts In Sun Prairie
Elevated
Within county
34 th percentile
Rank, 34th percentileLowHigh
#83 of 125 tracts In Dane County
Low
Within state
40 th percentile
Rank, 40th percentileLowHigh
#923 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Sun Prairie and the region

Centroid at 43.1835, -89.2521 · click any tract to drill in

Why Royal Oaks scores 3.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Sun Prairie
7.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,465 rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Sun Prairie
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Sun Prairie
7.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Sun Prairie
4.5

How Royal Oaks compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Royal Oaks risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.3This tracttract 0115044.0Sun Prairieparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 12

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

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)

  • 261Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 3.56%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.5%Peak (2009)
  • 8Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55025011504
Filings dropped 47% 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 Royal Oaks

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.9/10. Severe burden reaches 14%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.9/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.9 points below the Dane County average of 4.2.

Court records carry 261 eviction filings across 13 observed years. SNAP participation runs 8.0% against 15.2% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2009, when 7.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 27th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.1/10.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $100,024, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

40% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.

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 55025011504

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025011504?

Census tract 55025011504 in the Royal Oaks neighborhood scores 3.3/10 (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 55025011504?

Median gross rent is $1,465/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55025011504?

4.9% of residents in tract 55025011504 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,588.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55025011504?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 13th, minority 31th, housing 36th.
Q5

Is tract 55025011504 considered part of Royal Oaks?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025011504 fall within Royal Oaks (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025011504?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 261 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025011504 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.56% of renter households, peaking at 7.5% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55025011504 struggle to pay rent?

About 8.2% 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. 4.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55025011504 compare to Sun Prairie overall?

Tract 55025011504 scores 3.3/10, lower than the parent city of Sun Prairie at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Sun Prairie eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Sun Prairie

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

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