Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079003900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,295 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Census tract 55079003900 covers part of the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 65% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0862, -87.9621 · click any tract to drill in
Why Center Street Marketplace scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Center Street Marketplace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 90
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 92%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 81%Grade B
- 19%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)
- 690Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.7%Peak (2014)
- 76Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 350Total filings 2020-21
- 4.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.86×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 Center Street Marketplace. 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.
- 24.6%Housing insecurity
- 15.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 32.2%Food insecurity
- 37.4%SNAP enrollment
- 15.9%Transit barriers
- 10.9%No health insurance
- 18.7%Frequent mental distress
- 36.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace
SNAP participation runs 37.4% against 15.2% nationally. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $34,057 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Housing insecurity runs 24.6% against 14.2% nationally.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 690 filings here across 13 tracked years. At $910 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 11.7% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 8.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
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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