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SOHI Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079014800 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,062 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

Tract 55079014800 sits in the SOHI area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 2,062. 40% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 53% Stable renters 44% Owners 3%
Tract context
Occupied units794
Renter share97.0%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate58.2%
Median income$26,474

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
67 th percentile
Rank, 67th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 10 tracts In SOHI
Elevated
Within parent city
64 th percentile
Rank, 64th percentileLowHigh
#77 of 210 tracts In Milwaukee
Elevated
Within county
83 th percentile
Rank, 83rd percentileLowHigh
#52 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0421, -87.9402 · click any tract to drill in

Why SOHI scores 5.8

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
58.2% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$881 rent vs county FMR
2.0
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 SOHI compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
SOHI risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 014800Milwaukee: 4.44.4Milwaukeeparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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)

  • 887Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 8.58%Avg annual filing rate
  • 12.0%Peak (2013)
  • 77Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550790148002003: 32 filings (4.78/100 renter HHs)2004: 46 filings (6.88/100 renter HHs)2007: 34 filings (4.94/100 renter HHs)2008: 79 filings (11.48/100 renter HHs)2009: 68 filings (9.88/100 renter HHs)2010: 74 filings (7.21/100 renter HHs)2011: 37 filings (4.40/100 renter HHs)2012: 91 filings (10.82/100 renter HHs)2013: 101 filings (12.01/100 renter HHs)2014: 94 filings (11.18/100 renter HHs)2015: 81 filings (9.63/100 renter HHs)2016: 73 filings (8.89/100 renter HHs)2017: 77 filings (9.38/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 141% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 459Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 6.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.87×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: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2020-03-01: 2 filings (0.34× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 2 filings (0.29× baseline)2020-07-01: 4 filings (0.61× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 4 filings (0.51× baseline)2020-10-01: 2 filings (0.33× baseline)2020-11-01: 2 filings (0.37× baseline)2020-12-01: 3 filings (0.38× baseline)2021-01-01: 1 filings (0.14× baseline)2021-02-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2021-03-01: 2 filings (0.34× baseline)2021-04-01: 4 filings (0.43× baseline)2021-05-01: 2 filings (0.19× baseline)2021-06-01: 3 filings (0.43× baseline)2021-07-01: 7 filings (1.06× baseline)2021-08-01: 2 filings (0.23× baseline)2021-09-01: 5 filings (0.64× baseline)2021-10-01: 23 filings (3.83× baseline)2021-11-01: 10 filings (1.85× baseline)2021-12-01: 2 filings (0.25× baseline)2022-01-01: 12 filings (1.62× baseline)2022-02-01: 9 filings (1.73× baseline)2022-03-01: 19 filings (3.28× baseline)2022-04-01: 2 filings (0.22× baseline)2022-05-01: 16 filings (1.54× baseline)2022-06-01: 6 filings (0.86× baseline)2022-07-01: 9 filings (1.36× baseline)2022-08-01: 2 filings (0.23× baseline)2022-09-01: 4 filings (0.51× baseline)2022-10-01: 26 filings (4.33× baseline)2022-11-01: 6 filings (1.11× baseline)2022-12-01: 14 filings (1.75× baseline)2023-01-01: 10 filings (1.35× baseline)2023-02-01: 11 filings (2.12× baseline)2023-03-01: 6 filings (1.03× baseline)2023-04-01: 5 filings (0.54× baseline)2023-05-01: 13 filings (1.25× baseline)2023-06-01: 10 filings (1.43× baseline)2023-07-01: 6 filings (0.91× baseline)2023-08-01: 8 filings (0.91× baseline)2023-09-01: 5 filings (0.64× baseline)2023-10-01: 6 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 6 filings (1.11× baseline)2023-12-01: 7 filings (0.88× baseline)2024-01-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2024-02-01: 4 filings (0.77× baseline)2024-03-01: 3 filings (0.52× baseline)2024-04-01: 7 filings (0.76× baseline)2024-05-01: 10 filings (0.96× baseline)2024-06-01: 3 filings (0.43× baseline)2024-07-01: 11 filings (1.67× baseline)2024-08-01: 3 filings (0.34× baseline)2024-09-01: 3 filings (0.38× baseline)2024-10-01: 6 filings (1.00× baseline)2024-11-01: 4 filings (0.74× baseline)2024-12-01: 3 filings (0.38× baseline)2025-01-01: 4 filings (0.54× baseline)2025-02-01: 4 filings (0.77× baseline)2025-03-01: 5 filings (0.86× baseline)2025-04-01: 7 filings (0.76× baseline)2025-05-01: 6 filings (0.58× baseline)2025-06-01: 5 filings (0.71× baseline)2025-07-01: 3 filings (0.45× baseline)2025-08-01: 6 filings (0.68× baseline)2025-09-01: 3 filings (0.38× baseline)2025-10-01: 31 filings (5.17× baseline)2025-11-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2025-12-01: 2 filings (0.25× baseline)2026-01-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 1 filings (10.00× 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 SOHI. 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 SOHI

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 58%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 97% 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.

Food insecurity runs 40.4% against 17.8% nationally. Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $26,474, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Cost burden runs 55% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.

Average gross rent is $881, 17% below the Milwaukee average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 887 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2013, when 12.0% 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079014800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079014800?

Census tract 55079014800 in the SOHI neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 55079014800?

Median gross rent is $881/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 55% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079014800?

58.2% of residents in tract 55079014800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,062.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079014800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 60th, minority 79th, housing 97th.
Q5

Is tract 55079014800 considered part of SOHI?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079014800 fall within SOHI (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079014800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 887 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079014800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.58% of renter households, peaking at 12.0% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079014800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.87× 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 55079014800 struggle to pay rent?

About 25.5% 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. 17.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079014800 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079014800 scores 5.8/10, 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 55079014800 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. 10% 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.

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