Within neighborhood
57
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Old North Milwaukee Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55079004100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,144 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Tract 55079004100 sits in the Old North Milwaukee area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 3,144. The severe-burden share is 39%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 36%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,138
Renter share64.1%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate23.9%
Median income$42,500
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
96
th percentile
Very High
Within county
79
th percentile
High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0941, -87.9568 · click any tract to drill in
Why Old North Milwaukee 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
23.9% poverty · this tract
6.0
Supply constraint
$1,142 rent vs county FMR
4.1
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: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 91%Socioeconomic
- 82%Household composition
- 96%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%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
- 26%Grade B
- 35%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)
- 740Total filings over 13 yrs
- 11.61%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.0%Peak (2014)
- 82Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 100% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 349Total filings 2020-21
- 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.87×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 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.
- 33.8%Housing insecurity
- 23.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 46.6%Food insecurity
- 56.3%SNAP enrollment
- 23.1%Transit barriers
- 15.3%No health insurance
- 22.0%Frequent mental distress
- 44.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Old North Milwaukee
SNAP participation runs 56.3% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 46.6% against 17.8% nationally.
Cost burden runs 56% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. Set annual rent against average income of $42,500 and the ratio lands at 32%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 740 evictions over 13 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2014, when 16.0% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 11.6% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079004100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079004100?
Census tract 55079004100 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.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55079004100?
Median gross rent is $1,142/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 56% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079004100?
23.9% of residents in tract 55079004100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,144.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079004100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 91th, household 82th, minority 96th, housing 82th.
Q5
Is tract 55079004100 considered part of Old North Milwaukee?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079004100 fall within Old North Milwaukee (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079004100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 740 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079004100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.61% of renter households, peaking at 16.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079004100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.87× 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 55079004100 struggle to pay rent?
About 33.8% 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. 23.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079004100 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079004100 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 55079004100 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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