Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
South Towne Eviction Risk: Lower , Cudahy
Tract 55079180400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,884 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
With a score of 3.8/10, tract 55079180400 in the South Towne area of Cudahy, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Pulling hardest the other way is supply constraint at 1/10.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,330
Renter share26.4%
SVI overall0.68
Poverty rate11.0%
Median income$55,161
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
25
th percentile
Low
Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
56
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cudahy and the region
Centroid at 42.9371, -87.8563 · click any tract to drill in
Why South Towne scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cudahy
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
11.0% poverty · this tract
2.8
Supply constraint
$656 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cudahy
4.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cudahy
7.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cudahy
5.2
How South Towne compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 68
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 54%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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
- 27%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)
- 101Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.20%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.7%Peak (2014)
- 2Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 60% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 43Total filings 2020-21
- 0.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×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 South Towne. 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.
- 10.6%Housing insecurity
- 6.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.2%Food insecurity
- 15.1%SNAP enrollment
- 7.6%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 32.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in South Towne
At $656 a month, rents run 36% under what the rest of Cudahy commands. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Cost burden runs about half here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10. The filing record is not thin: 101 evictions over 13 years of observation.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2014, when 3.7% 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 2.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 38% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
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 55079180400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079180400?
Census tract 55079180400 in the South Towne neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (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 55079180400?
Median gross rent is $656/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079180400?
11.0% of residents in tract 55079180400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,884.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079180400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 68th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 54th, household 88th, minority 31th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 55079180400 considered part of South Towne?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079180400 fall within South Towne (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079180400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 101 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079180400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.20% of renter households, peaking at 3.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079180400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× 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 55079180400 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.6% 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. 6.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079180400 compare to Cudahy overall?
Tract 55079180400 scores 3.8/10, right in line with the parent city of Cudahy at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cudahy eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079180400 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Cudahy
Top eight tracts in Cudahy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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