Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Harambee Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079004600 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,924 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Census tract 55079004600 covers part of the Harambee area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,924 residents. Severe burden reaches 39%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 60%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 27%
Tract context
Occupied units1,146
Renter share72.5%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate35.5%
Median income$27,418
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
58
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
76
th percentile
High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0857, -87.9321 · click any tract to drill in
Why Harambee 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
35.5% poverty · this tract
8.9
Supply constraint
$1,131 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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 Harambee compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 93%Socioeconomic
- 62%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%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
- 7%Grade B
- 93%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)
- 1,040Total filings over 13 yrs
- 14.47%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.3%Peak (2012)
- 98Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 31% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 398Total filings 2020-21
- 5.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.77×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 Harambee. 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.
- 38.7%Housing insecurity
- 29.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 55.3%Food insecurity
- 68.0%SNAP enrollment
- 28.5%Transit barriers
- 16.7%No health insurance
- 23.1%Frequent mental distress
- 49.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Harambee
Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 82% of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $27,418 and the ratio lands at 50%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.9/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 49.0% against 31.5% nationally.
73% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 1,040 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 18.3% 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 14.5% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079004600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079004600?
Census tract 55079004600 in the Harambee 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 55079004600?
Median gross rent is $1,131/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 82% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079004600?
35.5% of residents in tract 55079004600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,924.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079004600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 93th, household 62th, minority 95th, housing 19th.
Q5
Is tract 55079004600 considered part of Harambee?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079004600 fall within Harambee (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079004600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,040 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079004600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 14.47% of renter households, peaking at 18.3% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079004600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.77× 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 55079004600 struggle to pay rent?
About 38.7% 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. 29.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079004600 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079004600 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 55079004600 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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