Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Tosa Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079003400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 5,667 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 55079003400 sits in the Tosa Heights area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. SNAP participation runs 32.7% against 15.2% nationally.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units2,299
Renter share59.5%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate28.2%
Median income$49,719
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
78
th percentile
High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0935, -88.0244 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tosa Heights scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
28.2% poverty · this tract
7.1
Supply constraint
$973 rent vs county FMR
2.7
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 Tosa Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 70
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 55%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 85%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%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
- 2%Grade B
- 76%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)
- 1,579Total filings over 13 yrs
- 9.08%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.3%Peak (2013)
- 123Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 58% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 617Total filings 2020-21
- 8.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 10.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.75×Ratio to baseline
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 Tosa Heights. 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.
- 21.4%Housing insecurity
- 14.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 27.7%Food insecurity
- 32.7%SNAP enrollment
- 14.2%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 19.0%Frequent mental distress
- 34.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tosa Heights
The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 27.7% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,579 filings here across 13 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 11.3% of renter households. Average gross rent is $973, 8% below the Milwaukee average. 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 9.1% of renter households face a filing.
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 55079003400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079003400?
Census tract 55079003400 in the Tosa Heights 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.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55079003400?
Median gross rent is $973/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079003400?
28.2% of residents in tract 55079003400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,667.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079003400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 55th, household 74th, minority 85th, housing 64th.
Q5
Is tract 55079003400 considered part of Tosa Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079003400 fall within Tosa Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079003400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,579 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079003400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 9.08% of renter households, peaking at 11.3% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079003400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.75× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079003400 struggle to pay rent?
About 21.4% 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. 14.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079003400 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079003400 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 55079003400 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.
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