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Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079007000 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,496 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

Census tract 55079007000 covers part of the Bronzeville area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,496. Severe burden reaches 38%. 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 48% Stable renters 26% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units963
Renter share73.5%
SVI overall0.99
Poverty rate56.5%
Median income$20,673

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#9 of 17 tracts In Bronzeville
Moderate
Within parent city
80 th percentile
Rank, 80th percentileLowHigh
#43 of 210 tracts In Milwaukee
High
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#26 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
Very High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0742, -87.9112 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bronzeville scores 5.8

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
56.5% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,002 rent vs county FMR
3.0
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 Bronzeville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bronzeville risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 007000Milwaukee: 4.44.4Milwaukeeparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 99

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

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.

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)

  • 1,336Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 13.42%Avg annual filing rate
  • 14.7%Peak (2017)
  • 140Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550790070002003: 92 filings (11.75/100 renter HHs)2004: 85 filings (10.86/100 renter HHs)2007: 91 filings (14.02/100 renter HHs)2008: 95 filings (14.64/100 renter HHs)2009: 97 filings (14.95/100 renter HHs)2010: 107 filings (14.68/100 renter HHs)2011: 103 filings (13.29/100 renter HHs)2012: 119 filings (15.35/100 renter HHs)2013: 88 filings (11.35/100 renter HHs)2014: 105 filings (13.55/100 renter HHs)2015: 113 filings (14.58/100 renter HHs)2016: 101 filings (10.63/100 renter HHs)2017: 140 filings (14.74/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 52% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 444Total filings 2020-21
  • 5.8Avg monthly (observed)
  • 8.0Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.72×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 3 filings (0.36× baseline)2020-02-01: 8 filings (1.54× baseline)2020-03-01: 3 filings (0.48× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 11 filings (0.92× baseline)2020-07-01: 9 filings (1.07× baseline)2020-08-01: 3 filings (0.48× baseline)2020-09-01: 9 filings (0.82× baseline)2020-10-01: 3 filings (0.30× baseline)2020-11-01: 5 filings (0.57× baseline)2020-12-01: 5 filings (0.71× baseline)2021-01-01: 4 filings (0.48× baseline)2021-02-01: 10 filings (1.92× baseline)2021-03-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2021-04-01: 1 filings (0.10× baseline)2021-05-01: 6 filings (0.59× baseline)2021-06-01: 8 filings (0.67× baseline)2021-07-01: 3 filings (0.36× baseline)2021-08-01: 5 filings (0.81× baseline)2021-09-01: 7 filings (0.64× baseline)2021-10-01: 10 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-11-01: 8 filings (0.91× baseline)2021-12-01: 4 filings (0.57× baseline)2022-01-01: 10 filings (1.19× baseline)2022-02-01: 3 filings (0.58× baseline)2022-03-01: 9 filings (1.45× baseline)2022-04-01: 9 filings (0.92× baseline)2022-05-01: 7 filings (0.69× baseline)2022-06-01: 5 filings (0.42× baseline)2022-07-01: 13 filings (1.55× baseline)2022-08-01: 13 filings (2.10× baseline)2022-09-01: 3 filings (0.27× baseline)2022-10-01: 12 filings (1.20× baseline)2022-11-01: 5 filings (0.57× baseline)2022-12-01: 10 filings (1.43× baseline)2023-01-01: 2 filings (0.24× baseline)2023-02-01: 12 filings (2.31× baseline)2023-03-01: 2 filings (0.32× baseline)2023-04-01: 4 filings (0.41× baseline)2023-05-01: 9 filings (0.88× baseline)2023-06-01: 6 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-07-01: 5 filings (0.60× baseline)2023-08-01: 9 filings (1.45× baseline)2023-09-01: 7 filings (0.64× baseline)2023-10-01: 4 filings (0.40× baseline)2023-11-01: 4 filings (0.45× baseline)2023-12-01: 5 filings (0.71× baseline)2024-01-01: 6 filings (0.71× baseline)2024-02-01: 7 filings (1.35× baseline)2024-03-01: 5 filings (0.81× baseline)2024-04-01: 5 filings (0.51× baseline)2024-05-01: 7 filings (0.69× baseline)2024-06-01: 3 filings (0.25× baseline)2024-07-01: 5 filings (0.60× baseline)2024-08-01: 5 filings (0.81× baseline)2024-09-01: 5 filings (0.45× baseline)2024-10-01: 6 filings (0.60× baseline)2024-11-01: 2 filings (0.23× baseline)2024-12-01: 6 filings (0.86× baseline)2025-01-01: 1 filings (0.12× baseline)2025-02-01: 4 filings (0.77× baseline)2025-03-01: 5 filings (0.81× baseline)2025-04-01: 4 filings (0.41× baseline)2025-05-01: 4 filings (0.39× baseline)2025-06-01: 2 filings (0.17× baseline)2025-07-01: 3 filings (0.36× baseline)2025-08-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2025-09-01: 8 filings (0.73× baseline)2025-10-01: 10 filings (1.00× baseline)2025-11-01: 7 filings (0.80× baseline)2025-12-01: 8 filings (1.14× baseline)2026-01-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 8 filings (80.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 1 filings (10.00× 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 Bronzeville. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bronzeville

roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. Annualized rent equals 58% of average household income of $20,673, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 10/10.

Food insecurity runs 65.3% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 38.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

The poverty rate is 57%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 74% 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. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.

Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,336 filings here across 13 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2017, when 14.7% of renter households were served.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 13.4% of renter households face a filing.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079007000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079007000?

Census tract 55079007000 in the Bronzeville 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 55079007000?

Median gross rent is $1,002/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079007000?

56.5% of residents in tract 55079007000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,496.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079007000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 99th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 97th, minority 93th, housing 91th.
Q5

Is tract 55079007000 considered part of Bronzeville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079007000 fall within Bronzeville (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079007000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,336 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079007000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.42% of renter households, peaking at 14.7% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079007000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× 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 55079007000 struggle to pay rent?

About 45.8% 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. 38.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079007000 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079007000 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 55079007000 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. 16% 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.

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