Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Milwaukee River Parkway Eviction Risk: Lower , Whitefish Bay
Tract 55079070100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,358 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
Tract 55079070100 sits in the Milwaukee eviction risk River Parkway area of Whitefish Bay, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 4,358 residents. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 82%
Tract context
Occupied units1,705
Renter share17.2%
SVI overall0.13
Poverty rate2.4%
Median income$163,092
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
16
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Whitefish Bay and the region
Centroid at 43.1206, -87.9076 · click any tract to drill in
Why Milwaukee River Parkway scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Whitefish Bay
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
2.4% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,296 rent vs county FMR
5.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Whitefish Bay
3.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Whitefish Bay
4.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Whitefish Bay
3.2
How Milwaukee River Parkway compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 13
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 38%Household composition
- 21%Racial/ethnic minority
- 26%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.
- 36%Grade A
- 49%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)
- 75Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 8.3%Peak (2013)
- 7Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 75% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 12Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.29×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.
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.
- 4.6%Housing insecurity
- 2.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 4.8%Food insecurity
- 4.4%SNAP enrollment
- 3.4%Transit barriers
- 3.7%No health insurance
- 11.9%Frequent mental distress
- 18.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Milwaukee River Parkway
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Disability prevalence runs 18.2% against 31.5% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 4.4% against 15.2% nationally. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.3/10. The filing record is not thin: 75 evictions over 13 years of observation.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 8.3% of renter households were served. 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 3.9% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
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 55079070100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079070100?
Census tract 55079070100 in the Milwaukee River Parkway neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 55079070100?
Median gross rent is $1,296/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079070100?
2.4% of residents in tract 55079070100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,358.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079070100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 13th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 38th, minority 21th, housing 26th.
Q5
Is tract 55079070100 considered part of Milwaukee River Parkway?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079070100 fall within Milwaukee River Parkway (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079070100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 75 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079070100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.89% of renter households, peaking at 8.3% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079070100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.29× 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 55079070100 struggle to pay rent?
About 4.6% 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. 2.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079070100 compare to Whitefish Bay overall?
Tract 55079070100 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Whitefish Bay at 3.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Whitefish Bay; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079070100 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Whitefish Bay
Top eight tracts in Whitefish Bay ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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