Neighborhood · Ranked #54,273 of 84,120 nationally

Town Hall Terrace Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee

Tract 55079019700 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 6,016 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

With a score of 3.7/10, tract 55079019700 in the Town Hall Terrace area of Milwaukee, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 6,016. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.

Risk score

3.7

Lower

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 20% Stable renters 21% Owners 59%

Tract context

Occupied units2,465

Renter share40.9%

SVI overall0.47

Poverty rate11.8%

Median income$77,083

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 42.9757, -88.0074 · click any tract to drill in

Why Town Hall Terrace scores 3.7

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

11.8% poverty · this tract

2.9

Supply constraint

$1,177 rent vs county FMR

4.4

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 Town Hall Terrace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 47

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

38%Socioeconomic
78%Household composition
48%Racial/ethnic minority
35%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

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
6%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.

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)

454Total filings over 13 yrs
3.55%Avg annual filing rate
4.6%Peak (2008)
42Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

246Total filings 2020-21
3.2Avg monthly (observed)
2.3Pre-pandemic baseline
1.39×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Town Hall Terrace. 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.

11.3%Housing insecurity
6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
14.3%Food insecurity
14.2%SNAP enrollment
7.8%Transit barriers
9.8%No health insurance
16.5%Frequent mental distress
28.9%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Town Hall Terrace

19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 454 evictions over 13 years of observation.

It sits 0.8 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. At $1,177 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands. The worst year on record was 2008, when 4.6% of renter households were served.

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 3.6% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 35th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079019700

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079019700?

Census tract 55079019700 in the Town Hall Terrace neighborhood scores 3.7/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 55079019700?

Median gross rent is $1,177/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079019700?

11.8% of residents in tract 55079019700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,016.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079019700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 47th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 38th, household 78th, minority 48th, housing 35th.

Is tract 55079019700 considered part of Town Hall Terrace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079019700 fall within Town Hall Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079019700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 454 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079019700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.55% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079019700 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.39× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 55079019700 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.3% 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. 6.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079019700 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079019700 scores 3.7/10, lower 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 55079019700 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 6% 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.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org