Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079008100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,283 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
With a score of 5.8/10, tract 55079008100 in the Bronzeville area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0675, -87.9074 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bronzeville scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bronzeville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 86
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 93%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 35%Grade C
- 65%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.
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)
- 612Total filings over 13 yrs
- 12.62%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.0%Peak (2004)
- 39Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 158Total filings 2020-21
- 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.57×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bronzeville. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.3%Housing insecurity
- 19.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.4%Food insecurity
- 45.4%SNAP enrollment
- 19.1%Transit barriers
- 14.7%No health insurance
- 20.4%Frequent mental distress
- 37.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bronzeville
The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 45.4% against 15.2% nationally.
The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 37.4% against 17.8% nationally.
Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $32,637, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 78% 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.
Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 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. Court records carry 612 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2004, when 14.0% 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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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