Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally

Old North Milwaukee Eviction Risk: Moderate

Tract 55079002100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,122 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

55079002100 is a census tract in the Old North Milwaukee area of Milwaukee, WI. It scores 5.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,122 residents. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

5.8

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 38% Stable renters 32% Owners 30%

Tract context

Occupied units830

Renter share69.8%

SVI overall0.86

Poverty rate36.2%

Median income$31,356

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.1155, -87.9532 · click any tract to drill in

Why Old North Milwaukee scores 5.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from Milwaukee

7.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.0

State political climate

Wisconsin legislature & governorship

2.9

Economic stress

36.2% poverty · this tract

9.0

Supply constraint

$910 rent vs county FMR

2.2

Rent control risk

Inherited from Milwaukee

2.5

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from Milwaukee

6.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from Milwaukee

5.5

How Old North Milwaukee compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 86

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

92%Socioeconomic
56%Household composition
93%Racial/ethnic minority
72%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
48%Grade C
0%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.

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)

1,409Total filings over 13 yrs
17.35%Avg annual filing rate
22.7%Peak (2017)
157Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings climbed 80% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

673Total filings 2020-21
8.7Avg monthly (observed)
9.6Pre-pandemic baseline
0.91×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Old North Milwaukee. 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.

35.2%Housing insecurity
25.3%Utility-shutoff threat
48.4%Food insecurity
59.4%SNAP enrollment
24.0%Transit barriers
14.4%No health insurance
22.8%Frequent mental distress
42.3%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Old North Milwaukee

Food insecurity runs 48.4% against 17.8% nationally. The dominant input is economic stress at 9/10. The poverty rate is 36%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $31,356, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 25.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. The filing record is not thin: 1,409 evictions over 13 years of observation.

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 55079002100

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079002100?

Census tract 55079002100 in the Old North Milwaukee neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 55079002100?

Median gross rent is $910/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079002100?

36.2% of residents in tract 55079002100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,122.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079002100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 56th, minority 93th, housing 72th.

Is tract 55079002100 considered part of Old North Milwaukee?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079002100 fall within Old North Milwaukee (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079002100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,409 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079002100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.35% of renter households, peaking at 22.7% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079002100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.91× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 55079002100 struggle to pay rent?

About 35.2% 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. 25.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079002100 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079002100 scores 5.8/10, higher than the parent city of Milwaukee at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Milwaukee eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Q10

Was tract 55079002100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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 Milwaukee

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

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org