Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079009600 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,618 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Census tract 55079009600 covers part of the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,618 residents. SNAP participation runs 44.2% against 15.2% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0534, -87.9672 · click any tract to drill in
Why Center Street Marketplace scores 5.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Center Street Marketplace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 87
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 55%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
- 41%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.
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)
- 1,396Total filings over 13 yrs
- 23.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 26.5%Peak (2014)
- 116Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 335Total filings 2020-21
- 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 8.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.52×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 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.
- 29.7%Housing insecurity
- 18.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 40.0%Food insecurity
- 44.2%SNAP enrollment
- 19.8%Transit barriers
- 15.0%No health insurance
- 22.2%Frequent mental distress
- 37.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace
Food insecurity runs 40.0% against 17.8% nationally. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Cost burden runs 35% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $39,600, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.
The filing record is not thin: 1,396 evictions over 13 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 26.5% of renter households. 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 23.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 63% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.2 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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