Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079008900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,225 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 55079008900 sits in the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 1,225. The severe-burden share is 72%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0671, -87.9534 · click any tract to drill in
Why Center Street Marketplace scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Center Street Marketplace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 80
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 42%Grade C
- 37%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)
- 715Total filings over 13 yrs
- 18.69%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.4%Peak (2014)
- 59Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 273Total filings 2020-21
- 3.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Center Street Marketplace. 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.
- 44.7%Housing insecurity
- 34.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 62.0%Food insecurity
- 73.6%SNAP enrollment
- 33.6%Transit barriers
- 22.7%No health insurance
- 25.8%Frequent mental distress
- 50.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace
81% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. Annualized rent equals 59% of average household income of $20,714, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Housing insecurity runs 44.7% against 14.2% nationally.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 34.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 63%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
This is renter territory: 69% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, 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.
On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 715 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 24.4% 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.
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.
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