Within neighborhood
80
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Town of Lake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079021000 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,352 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Census tract 55079021000 covers part of the Town of Lake area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 4/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,352 residents. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 23% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 4%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units1,109
Renter share17.1%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate9.9%
Median income$60,507
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
19
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
39
th percentile
Low
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9628, -87.8999 · click any tract to drill in
Why Town of Lake scores 4
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
9.9% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,061 rent vs county FMR
3.4
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 of Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 33
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 52%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 9%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
- 75%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)
- 44Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.00%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.5%Peak (2009)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 150% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 16Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.78×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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 of Lake. 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.
- 10.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.3%Food insecurity
- 13.3%SNAP enrollment
- 7.3%Transit barriers
- 9.4%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 28.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Town of Lake
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 44 filings here across 13 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2009, when 2.5% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 4/10 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 least pressured. It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely.
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 55079021000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079021000?
Census tract 55079021000 in the Town of Lake neighborhood scores 4/10 (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 55079021000?
Median gross rent is $1,061/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079021000?
9.9% of residents in tract 55079021000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,352.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079021000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 50th, minority 52th, housing 9th.
Q5
Is tract 55079021000 considered part of Town of Lake?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079021000 fall within Town of Lake (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079021000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 44 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079021000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.00% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079021000 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.78× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079021000 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.8% 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. 5.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079021000 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079021000 scores 4/10, 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 55079021000 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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