Bay View Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079018300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,324 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 55079018300 in the Bay View area of Milwaukee, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,324. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9914, -87.8929 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bay View scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bay View compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 6
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 13%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
- 66%Grade C
- 22%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)
- 162Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.21%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.9%Peak (2004)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 32Total filings 2020-21
- 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.40×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 Bay View. 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.
- 7.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.1%Food insecurity
- 7.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.2%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 15.5%Frequent mental distress
- 20.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bay View
Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. At $1,375 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 162 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2004 at 3.9% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Milwaukee Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 2.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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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