Sherman Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079004000 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,200 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Census tract 55079004000 covers part of the Sherman Park area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,200. Food insecurity runs 50.9% against 17.8% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0935, -87.9721 · click any tract to drill in
Why Sherman Park scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Sherman Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 52%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 63%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
- 79%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)
- 730Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.18%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.1%Peak (2015)
- 43Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 211Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.57×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Sherman Park. 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.
- 36.9%Housing insecurity
- 27.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 50.9%Food insecurity
- 63.5%SNAP enrollment
- 25.6%Transit barriers
- 13.9%No health insurance
- 23.9%Frequent mental distress
- 44.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Sherman Park
29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.1/10. The poverty rate is 37%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
This is renter territory: 82% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 27.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Set annual rent against average income of $31,136 and the ratio lands at 35%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. 54% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
At $896 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 730 filings here across 13 tracked years.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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