Tosa Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079003300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 5,104 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 5.3/10, tract 55079003300 in the Tosa Heights area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,104 residents. SNAP participation runs 35.3% against 15.2% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.1010, -88.0173 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tosa Heights scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Tosa Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 83
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 75%Household composition
- 90%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%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
- 1%Grade B
- 41%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.
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)
- 1,451Total filings over 13 yrs
- 12.11%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.6%Peak (2012)
- 104Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 729Total filings 2020-21
- 9.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 10.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.93×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Tosa Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.3%Housing insecurity
- 14.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.8%Food insecurity
- 35.3%SNAP enrollment
- 15.2%Transit barriers
- 10.9%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Tosa Heights
Cost burden runs 59% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 23.3% against 14.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 1,451 evictions over 13 years of observation. It sits 0.8 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. At $937 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands.
Filings peaked in 2012 at 16.6% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Milwaukee Co. 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 12.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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.
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