Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally
Lynndale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079020400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,313 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Tract 55079020400 sits in the Lynndale area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.5/10. It is home to 3,313 residents. SNAP participation runs 40.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 56%
Tract context
Occupied units942
Renter share44.1%
SVI overall0.73
Poverty rate14.8%
Median income$59,750
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
31
th percentile
Low
Within county
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
73
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9883, -87.9301 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lynndale scores 4.5
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
14.8% poverty · this tract
3.7
Supply constraint
$1,014 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Lynndale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 64%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 75%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 100%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)
- 203Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.6%Peak (2003)
- 11Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 54% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 50Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.49×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Lynndale. 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.
- 29.0%Housing insecurity
- 15.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 41.2%Food insecurity
- 40.9%SNAP enrollment
- 19.0%Transit barriers
- 30.4%No health insurance
- 20.0%Frequent mental distress
- 40.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lynndale
Food insecurity runs 41.2% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 25%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. 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: 203 evictions over 13 years of observation.
Cost burden runs 41% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. The worst year on record was 2003, when 5.6% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 3.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
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 55079020400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079020400?
Census tract 55079020400 in the Lynndale neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (Moderate 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 55079020400?
Median gross rent is $1,014/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079020400?
14.8% of residents in tract 55079020400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,313.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079020400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 73th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 64th, household 56th, minority 86th, housing 75th.
Q5
Is tract 55079020400 considered part of Lynndale?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079020400 fall within Lynndale (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079020400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 203 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079020400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.52% of renter households, peaking at 5.6% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079020400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.49× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079020400 struggle to pay rent?
About 29.0% 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. 15.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079020400 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079020400 scores 4.5/10, right in line with 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 55079020400 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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