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Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wausau

Tract 55073000200 · Marathon County, WI · pop 3,286 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 4.1/10, tract 55073000200 in the Highland Park area of Wausau, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,286 residents. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
4.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15% Stable renters 18% Owners 67%
Tract context
Occupied units1,276
Renter share33.2%
SVI overall0.16
Poverty rate9.7%
Median income$77,805

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Highland Park
Moderate
Within parent city
27 th percentile
Rank, 27th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 12 tracts In Wausau
Low
Within county
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#13 of 32 tracts In Marathon County
Elevated
Within state
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#558 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Wausau and the region

Centroid at 44.9688, -89.6089 · click any tract to drill in

Why Highland Park scores 4.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Wausau
4.7
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.1
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
9.7% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$970 rent vs county FMR
4.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wausau
5.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wausau
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wausau
6.0

How Highland Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Highland Park risk score vs. parent city / county / state4.1This tracttract 0002004.0Wausauparent city3.8Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 16

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)

  • 136Total filings over 9 yrs
  • 3.72%Avg annual filing rate
  • 5.2%Peak (2015)
  • 17Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2007 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55073000200
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 9 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 Highland Park

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. 46% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Marathon County average of 37.6%.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 136 filings here across 9 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $77,805, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

It tracks the Marathon County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $970, close to the Wausau 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.

Frequently asked

About tract 55073000200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55073000200?

Census tract 55073000200 in the Highland Park neighborhood scores 4.1/10 (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 55073000200?

Median gross rent is $970/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55073000200?

9.7% of residents in tract 55073000200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,286.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55073000200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 16th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 45th, minority 31th, housing 8th.
Q5

Is tract 55073000200 considered part of Highland Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55073000200 fall within Highland Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55073000200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 136 eviction filings across 9 validated years in tract 55073000200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.72% of renter households, peaking at 5.2% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55073000200 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.6% 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. 5.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55073000200 compare to Wausau overall?

Tract 55073000200 scores 4.1/10, right in line with the parent city of Wausau at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wausau eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Wausau

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

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