Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Town of Lake Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079185200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,396 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Tract 55079185200 sits in the Town of Lake area of St. Francis, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 4,396 residents. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1.7/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units2,317
Renter share35.3%
SVI overall0.44
Poverty rate6.9%
Median income$67,019
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
18
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9677, -87.8819 · click any tract to drill in
Why Town of Lake scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Milwaukee
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
6.9% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$854 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Milwaukee
2.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Milwaukee
2.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Milwaukee
2.8
How Town of Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 44
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 43%Household composition
- 28%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 14%Grade C
- 19%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)
- 415Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.02%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.6%Peak (2017)
- 40Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 67% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 192Total filings 2020-21
- 2.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.01×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near 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.
- 9.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.6%Food insecurity
- 11.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.6%Transit barriers
- 8.5%No health insurance
- 15.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Town of Lake
Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.
It sits 1.5 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
The filing record is not thin: 415 evictions over 13 years of observation. At $854 a month, rents run 15% under what the rest of St. Francis commands. Cost burden runs 50% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
The worst year on record was 2017, when 3.6% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 3.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $67,019, annual rent is just 15%. 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 55079185200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079185200?
Census tract 55079185200 in the Town of Lake 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 55079185200?
Median gross rent is $854/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079185200?
6.9% of residents in tract 55079185200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,396.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079185200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 44th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 43th, minority 28th, housing 69th.
Q5
Is tract 55079185200 considered part of Town of Lake?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079185200 fall within Town of Lake (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079185200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 415 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079185200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.02% of renter households, peaking at 3.6% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079185200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.01× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079185200 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.7% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079185200 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079185200 scores 3/10, 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 55079185200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 19% 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
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Top eight tracts in Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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