Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #63,308 of 84,120 nationally
Howard Avenue Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079019900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,649 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 3.2/10, tract 55079019900 in the Howard Avenue Park area of Milwaukee, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,649 residents. 16% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well under the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Risk score
3.2
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 30%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,601
Renter share35.4%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate6.8%
Median income$77,554
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
11
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
26
th percentile
Low
Within state
36
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9732, -87.9824 · click any tract to drill in
Why Howard Avenue Park scores 3.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
6.8% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$941 rent vs county FMR
2.5
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 Howard Avenue Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 21%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 59%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 22%Grade B
- 0%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.
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)
- 124Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.4%Peak (2003)
- 11Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 27% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 55Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.15×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 10.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.9%Food insecurity
- 12.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%Transit barriers
- 10.2%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 27.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Howard Avenue Park
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.7/10. 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 1.3 points.
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 124 filings here across 13 tracked years.
At $941 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Filings peaked in 2003 at 4.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 25% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, 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.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079019900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079019900?
Census tract 55079019900 in the Howard Avenue Park neighborhood scores 3.2/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55079019900?
Median gross rent is $941/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 16% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079019900?
6.8% of residents in tract 55079019900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,649.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079019900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 21th, household 55th, minority 55th, housing 59th.
Q5
Is tract 55079019900 considered part of Howard Avenue Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079019900 fall within Howard Avenue Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079019900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 124 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079019900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.30% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079019900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.15× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079019900 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.7% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079019900 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079019900 scores 3.2/10, 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 55079019900 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.
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