Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #45,786 of 84,120 nationally
East Village Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079007900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,179 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 4.2/10, tract 55079007900 in the East Village area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. 26% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Risk score
4.2
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 36%
Tract context
Occupied units1,041
Renter share64.1%
SVI overall0.39
Poverty rate12.3%
Median income$63,811
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
22
th percentile
Low
Within county
43
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
66
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0662, -87.8958 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Village scores 4.2
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
12.3% poverty · this tract
3.1
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 East Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 39
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 59%Socioeconomic
- 8%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 46%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 60%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)
- 234Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.76%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.7%Peak (2004)
- 7Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 54Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.80×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 East Village. 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.
- 9.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.6%Food insecurity
- 10.9%SNAP enrollment
- 7.8%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 23.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in East Village
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Court records carry 234 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2004, when 4.7% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 2.8% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #45,786 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely. Average gross rent is $1,142, close to the Milwaukee average.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $63,811.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079007900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079007900?
Census tract 55079007900 in the East Village neighborhood scores 4.2/10 (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 55079007900?
Median gross rent is $1,142/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079007900?
12.3% of residents in tract 55079007900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,179.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079007900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 39th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 59th, household 8th, minority 48th, housing 46th.
Q5
Is tract 55079007900 considered part of East Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079007900 fall within East Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079007900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 234 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079007900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.76% of renter households, peaking at 4.7% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079007900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.80× 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 55079007900 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.8% 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. 5.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079007900 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079007900 scores 4.2/10, 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 55079007900 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 60% 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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