Parkview Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079019000 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,616 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 55079019000 sits in the Parkview Highlands area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5/10. Population here is 4,616. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 30% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9948, -87.9684 · click any tract to drill in
Why Parkview Highlands scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Parkview Highlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 69
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 69%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 31%Grade B
- 2%Grade C
- 0%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)
- 370Total filings over 13 yrs
- 4.49%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.8%Peak (2017)
- 73Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 144Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.82×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Parkview Highlands. 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.
- 16.2%Housing insecurity
- 8.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.8%Food insecurity
- 22.3%SNAP enrollment
- 10.8%Transit barriers
- 15.8%No health insurance
- 17.4%Frequent mental distress
- 32.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Parkview Highlands
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 370 filings here across 13 tracked years. SNAP participation runs 22.3% against 15.2% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2017 at 12.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 4.5% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 61st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely. Average gross rent is $1,081, close to the Milwaukee average.
Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $70,354.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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