Roosevelt Eviction Risk: Lower , Kenosha
Tract 55059001500 · Kenosha County, WI · pop 3,804 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 55059001500 covers part of the Roosevelt area of Kenosha, WI, and scores 3.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,804. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kenosha and the region
Centroid at 42.5706, -87.8523 · click any tract to drill in
Why Roosevelt scores 3.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Roosevelt compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 46%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 60%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 69%Grade C
- 29%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 267Total filings over 12 yrs
- 6.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.1%Peak (2007)
- 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.9%Food insecurity
- 16.7%SNAP enrollment
- 8.7%Transit barriers
- 11.4%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 31.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Roosevelt
Against Kenosha County at 40.9%, 30% of renters here are cost-burdened. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 2/10.
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 267 filings here across 12 tracked years.
Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Filings peaked in 2007 at 14.1% of renter households.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Kenosha. 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 6.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 33% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $85,290, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Kenosha County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $1,217, close to the Kenosha average.
33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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