Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Blue Mounds Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55025012700 · Dane County, WI · pop 4,128 · 16% of tract blocks fall in Blue Mounds
Tract 55025012700 sits in Blue Mounds, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.1/10. It is home to 4,128 residents. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.2/10.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,771
Renter share20.1%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$108,558
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
23
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
National
22
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Blue Mounds and the region
Centroid at 43.0817, -89.7825 · click any tract to drill in
Why Blue Mounds scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Blue Mounds
6.1
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
$1,222 rent vs county FMR
3.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Blue Mounds
6.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Blue Mounds
8.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Blue Mounds
6.0
How Blue Mounds compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 13%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 27%Housing & transportation
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)
- 33Total filings over 10 yrs
- 1.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.9%Peak (2002)
- 4Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 6.7%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.3%Food insecurity
- 7.3%SNAP enrollment
- 4.6%Transit barriers
- 5.3%No health insurance
- 13.7%Frequent mental distress
- 24.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Blue Mounds
The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.1 points.
At $1,222 a month, rents run 16% over what the rest of Blue Mounds commands. Court records carry 33 eviction filings across 10 observed years.
SNAP participation runs 7.3% against 15.2% nationally. Housing insecurity runs 6.7% against 14.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2002, when 3.9% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 20% 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.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 1.8/10.
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 55025012700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025012700?
Census tract 55025012700 in Blue Mounds scores 3.1/10 (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 55025012700?
Median gross rent is $1,222/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55025012700?
4.9% of residents in tract 55025012700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,128.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55025012700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 13th, minority 11th, housing 27th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025012700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 33 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 55025012700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.78% of renter households, peaking at 3.9% in 2002. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 55025012700 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.7% 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. 3.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 55025012700 compare to Blue Mounds overall?
Tract 55025012700 scores 3.1/10, lower than the parent city of Blue Mounds at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Blue Mounds; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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