Skip to content
Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

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.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 40% Owners 39%
Tract context
Occupied units490
Renter share60.6%
SVI overall0.87
Poverty rate16.5%
Median income$39,600

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
22 th percentile
Rank, 22nd percentileLowHigh
#15 of 19 tracts In Center Street Marketplace
Low
Within parent city
45 th percentile
Rank, 45th percentileLowHigh
#117 of 210 tracts In Milwaukee
Moderate
Within county
61 th percentile
Rank, 61st percentileLowHigh
#119 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
Elevated
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#218 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
High
Geographic context

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-friendly
Local 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
16.5% poverty · this tract
4.1
Supply constraint
$1,079 rent vs county FMR
3.6
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 Center Street Marketplace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Center Street Marketplace risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.15.1This tracttract 009600Milwaukee: 4.44.4Milwaukeeparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 87

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 1,396Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 23.91%Avg annual filing rate
  • 26.5%Peak (2014)
  • 116Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550790096002003: 116 filings (21.32/100 renter HHs)2004: 114 filings (20.96/100 renter HHs)2007: 96 filings (25.60/100 renter HHs)2008: 117 filings (31.20/100 renter HHs)2009: 100 filings (26.67/100 renter HHs)2010: 108 filings (24.22/100 renter HHs)2011: 88 filings (19.30/100 renter HHs)2012: 93 filings (20.39/100 renter HHs)2013: 115 filings (25.22/100 renter HHs)2014: 121 filings (26.54/100 renter HHs)2015: 105 filings (23.03/100 renter HHs)2016: 107 filings (22.25/100 renter HHs)2017: 116 filings (24.12/100 renter HHs)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 335Total filings 2020-21
  • 4.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 8.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.52×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2020-02-01: 5 filings (0.81× baseline)2020-03-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 3 filings (0.29× baseline)2020-07-01: 3 filings (0.25× baseline)2020-08-01: 2 filings (0.20× baseline)2020-09-01: 3 filings (0.25× baseline)2020-10-01: 3 filings (0.44× baseline)2020-11-01: 4 filings (0.49× baseline)2020-12-01: 2 filings (0.20× baseline)2021-01-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2021-02-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2021-03-01: 3 filings (0.48× baseline)2021-04-01: 5 filings (0.57× baseline)2021-05-01: 4 filings (0.37× baseline)2021-06-01: 4 filings (0.38× baseline)2021-07-01: 3 filings (0.25× baseline)2021-08-01: 6 filings (0.60× baseline)2021-09-01: 4 filings (0.34× baseline)2021-10-01: 5 filings (0.74× baseline)2021-11-01: 3 filings (0.37× baseline)2021-12-01: 7 filings (0.71× baseline)2022-01-01: 8 filings (1.08× baseline)2022-02-01: 8 filings (1.29× baseline)2022-03-01: 8 filings (1.29× baseline)2022-04-01: 4 filings (0.45× baseline)2022-05-01: 1 filings (0.09× baseline)2022-06-01: 3 filings (0.29× baseline)2022-07-01: 5 filings (0.42× baseline)2022-08-01: 8 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-09-01: 4 filings (0.34× baseline)2022-10-01: 8 filings (1.18× baseline)2022-11-01: 3 filings (0.37× baseline)2022-12-01: 4 filings (0.41× baseline)2023-01-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2023-02-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2023-03-01: 2 filings (0.32× baseline)2023-04-01: 5 filings (0.57× baseline)2023-05-01: 2 filings (0.19× baseline)2023-06-01: 5 filings (0.48× baseline)2023-07-01: 9 filings (0.76× baseline)2023-08-01: 5 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-09-01: 8 filings (0.68× baseline)2023-10-01: 1 filings (0.15× baseline)2023-11-01: 3 filings (0.37× baseline)2023-12-01: 8 filings (0.82× baseline)2024-01-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2024-02-01: 6 filings (0.97× baseline)2024-03-01: 7 filings (1.13× baseline)2024-04-01: 3 filings (0.34× baseline)2024-05-01: 3 filings (0.28× baseline)2024-06-01: 7 filings (0.67× baseline)2024-07-01: 4 filings (0.34× baseline)2024-08-01: 6 filings (0.60× baseline)2024-09-01: 6 filings (0.51× baseline)2024-10-01: 4 filings (0.59× baseline)2024-11-01: 2 filings (0.24× baseline)2024-12-01: 5 filings (0.51× baseline)2025-01-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2025-02-01: 6 filings (0.97× baseline)2025-03-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2025-04-01: 5 filings (0.57× baseline)2025-05-01: 6 filings (0.56× baseline)2025-06-01: 5 filings (0.48× baseline)2025-07-01: 5 filings (0.42× baseline)2025-08-01: 4 filings (0.40× baseline)2025-09-01: 7 filings (0.59× baseline)2025-10-01: 10 filings (1.47× baseline)2025-11-01: 3 filings (0.37× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 10 filings (100.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Center Street Marketplace. 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.

Analysis

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079009600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079009600?

Census tract 55079009600 in the Center Street Marketplace neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (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 55079009600?

Median gross rent is $1,079/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079009600?

16.5% of residents in tract 55079009600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,618.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079009600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 87th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 71th, minority 98th, housing 55th.
Q5

Is tract 55079009600 considered part of Center Street Marketplace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079009600 fall within Center Street Marketplace (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079009600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,396 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079009600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 23.91% of renter households, peaking at 26.5% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079009600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.52× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 55079009600 struggle to pay rent?

About 29.7% 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. 18.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079009600 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079009600 scores 5.1/10, 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 55079009600 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Milwaukee

Top eight tracts in Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Related