Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079016900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,730 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
With a score of 5.8/10, tract 55079016900 in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,730 residents. Adults with no health insurance runs 35.0% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
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Why Cesar E. Chavez Drive scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cesar E. Chavez Drive compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 97
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 781Total filings over 13 yrs
- 6.35%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.8%Peak (2013)
- 70Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 262Total filings 2020-21
- 3.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.62×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 Cesar E. Chavez Drive. 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.
- 34.7%Housing insecurity
- 20.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 51.0%Food insecurity
- 54.4%SNAP enrollment
- 24.3%Transit barriers
- 35.0%No health insurance
- 20.9%Frequent mental distress
- 47.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cesar E. Chavez Drive
The dominant input is economic stress at 9.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 34.7% against 14.2% nationally.
The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. 72% 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.
At $809 a month, rents run 24% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. Cost burden runs 39% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 781 filings here across 13 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 7.8% of renter households. 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. In a typical year about 6.3% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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