Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
East Market Eviction Risk: Lower , Hales Corners
Tract 55079130100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,740 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi
Census tract 55079130100 covers part of the East Market area of Hales Corners, WI, and scores 3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 20%
Stable renters 25%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units1,937
Renter share44.7%
SVI overall0.33
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$85,568
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
9
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Hales Corners and the region
Centroid at 42.9428, -88.0441 · click any tract to drill in
Why East Market scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Hales Corners
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,243 rent vs county FMR
4.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Hales Corners
5.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Hales Corners
8.4
Housing court bias
Inherited from Hales Corners
4.2
How East Market 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.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 44%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 49%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
- 3%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 1%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)
- 232Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.32%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2007)
- 17Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 69Total filings 2020-21
- 0.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.68×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.
- 7.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 9.3%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 6.6%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 26.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in East Market
The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10.
It sits 1.5 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 232 filings here across 13 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2007 at 4.9% of renter households.
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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4/10. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $85,568, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079130100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079130100?
Census tract 55079130100 in the East Market 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 55079130100?
Median gross rent is $1,243/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079130100?
4.1% of residents in tract 55079130100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,740.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079130100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 33th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 24th, household 44th, minority 37th, housing 49th.
Q5
Is tract 55079130100 considered part of East Market?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079130100 fall within East Market (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079130100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 232 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079130100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.32% of renter households, peaking at 4.9% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079130100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.68× 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 55079130100 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.6% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079130100 compare to Hales Corners overall?
Tract 55079130100 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Hales Corners at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Hales Corners; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079130100 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. 1% 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 Hales Corners
Top eight tracts in Hales Corners ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
Related