Bay View Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079018400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,298 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
With a score of 3/10, tract 55079018400 in the Bay View area of Milwaukee, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. 21% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9906, -87.9025 · 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: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 20%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 6%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
- 15%Grade C
- 51%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)
- 75Total filings over 12 yrs
- 2.62%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.2%Peak (2009)
- 6Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 13Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.45×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.
- 7.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.2%Food insecurity
- 7.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.2%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 20.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bay View
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. 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. Food insecurity runs 8.2% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 75 evictions over 12 years of observation. At $1,220 a month, rents run 15% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands.
SNAP participation runs 7.6% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2009 at 4.2% of renter households.
This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $86,691, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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