Within neighborhood
29
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #37,882 of 84,120 nationally
Downer Avenue Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079007300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,865 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Tract 55079007300 sits in the Downer Avenue area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.7/10. Population here is 1,865. Severe burden reaches 44%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 42%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units872
Renter share60.0%
SVI overall0.35
Poverty rate19.0%
Median income$65,550
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
37
th percentile
Low
Within county
53
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0785, -87.8884 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downer Avenue scores 4.7
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
19.0% poverty · this tract
4.8
Supply constraint
$1,223 rent vs county FMR
4.7
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 Downer Avenue compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 49%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 66%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
- 35%Grade B
- 37%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)
- 106Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak (2016)
- 16Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 78% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 65Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.13×Ratio to baseline
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 Downer Avenue. 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.
- 8.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.2%Food insecurity
- 10.3%SNAP enrollment
- 8.2%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 19.4%Frequent mental distress
- 24.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Downer Avenue
Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 69% of renters here are cost-burdened. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Average gross rent is $1,223, 15% above the Milwaukee average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 106 filings here across 13 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.8% 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #37,882 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 4.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079007300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079007300?
Census tract 55079007300 in the Downer Avenue neighborhood scores 4.7/10 (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 55079007300?
Median gross rent is $1,223/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079007300?
19.0% of residents in tract 55079007300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,865.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079007300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 35th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 49th, household 3th, minority 40th, housing 66th.
Q5
Is tract 55079007300 considered part of Downer Avenue?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079007300 fall within Downer Avenue (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079007300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 106 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079007300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.27% of renter households, peaking at 2.8% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079007300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.13× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079007300 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.2% 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. 4.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079007300 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079007300 scores 4.7/10, 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 55079007300 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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