Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
University Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079186400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,219 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 55079186400 sits in the University Hill area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 1,219. Set annual rent against average income of $12,390 and the ratio lands at 92%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 44%
Stable renters 56%
Owners 0%
Tract context
Occupied units235
Renter share100.0%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate67.1%
Median income$12,390
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
87
th percentile
High
Within county
85
th percentile
High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0370, -87.9304 · click any tract to drill in
Why University Hill scores 5.8
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
67.1% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$953 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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 University Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 61%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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
- 0%Grade C
- 51%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)
- 41Total filings over 13 yrs
- 0.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.8%Peak (2003)
- 3Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 73% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 53Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 4.42×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within University Hill. 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.
- 19.5%Housing insecurity
- 12.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 34.7%Food insecurity
- 38.8%SNAP enrollment
- 21.5%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 29.2%Frequent mental distress
- 39.8%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in University Hill
What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. The poverty rate is 67%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
SNAP participation runs 38.8% against 15.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 100% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Food insecurity runs 34.7% against 17.8% nationally. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 41 evictions over 13 years of observation.
At $953 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Filings peaked in 2003 at 1.8% of renter households. 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.
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 55079186400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079186400?
Census tract 55079186400 in the University Hill neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 55079186400?
Median gross rent is $953/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079186400?
67.1% of residents in tract 55079186400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,219.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079186400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 61th, household 0th, minority 36th, housing 79th.
Q5
Is tract 55079186400 considered part of University Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079186400 fall within University Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079186400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 41 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079186400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.78% of renter households, peaking at 1.8% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079186400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 4.42× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079186400 struggle to pay rent?
About 19.5% 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. 12.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079186400 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079186400 scores 5.8/10, higher 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 55079186400 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. 51% 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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