Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079005000 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,804 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

With a score of 4.5/10, tract 55079005000 in the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,804. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 61% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score

4.5

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 32% Stable renters 21% Owners 47%

Tract context

Occupied units2,019

Renter share52.4%

SVI overall0.52

Poverty rate12.6%

Median income$51,435

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0767, -87.9833 · click any tract to drill in

Why Center Street Marketplace scores 4.5

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

12.6% poverty · this tract

3.2

Supply constraint

$1,068 rent vs county FMR

3.5

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 Center Street Marketplace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 52

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

57%Socioeconomic
59%Household composition
85%Racial/ethnic minority
22%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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.

46%Grade A
54%Grade B
0%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)

805Total filings over 13 yrs
5.60%Avg annual filing rate
7.0%Peak (2015)
70Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings climbed 35% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

450Total filings 2020-21
5.8Avg monthly (observed)
5.4Pre-pandemic baseline
1.07×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Center Street Marketplace. 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.

20.2%Housing insecurity
13.0%Utility-shutoff threat
25.6%Food insecurity
29.8%SNAP enrollment
13.0%Transit barriers
8.9%No health insurance
17.9%Frequent mental distress
32.3%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace

Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. SNAP participation runs 29.8% against 15.2% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 805 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Food insecurity runs 25.6% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.0% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 5.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.7/10. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079005000

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079005000?

Census tract 55079005000 in the Center Street Marketplace neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 55079005000?

Median gross rent is $1,068/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079005000?

12.6% of residents in tract 55079005000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,804.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079005000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 52th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 57th, household 59th, minority 85th, housing 22th.

Is tract 55079005000 considered part of Center Street Marketplace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079005000 fall within Center Street Marketplace (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079005000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 805 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079005000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.60% of renter households, peaking at 7.0% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079005000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.07× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 55079005000 struggle to pay rent?

About 20.2% 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. 13.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079005000 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079005000 scores 4.5/10, right in line with 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 55079005000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Milwaukee

Top eight tracts in Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org