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Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally

Bell Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Appleton

Tract 55087011200 · Outagamie County, WI · pop 2,946 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

With a score of 3.8/10, tract 55087011200 in the Bell Heights area of Appleton, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,946 residents. The clearest offset is court filing pressure at 0.9/10.

Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6% Stable renters 18% Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units1,075
Renter share24.4%
SVI overall0.46
Poverty rate6.5%
Median income$79,464

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Bell Heights
Moderate
Within parent city
39 th percentile
Rank, 39th percentileLowHigh
#17 of 27 tracts In Appleton
Low
Within county
52 th percentile
Rank, 52nd percentileLowHigh
#23 of 47 tracts In Outagamie County
Moderate
Within state
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#681 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Elevated
Geographic context

Risk heat across Appleton and the region

Centroid at 44.2768, -88.4259 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bell Heights scores 3.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Appleton
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
6.5% poverty · this tract
1.6
Supply constraint
$1,071 rent vs county FMR
4.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Appleton
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Appleton
7.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Appleton
4.2

How Bell Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bell Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.8This tracttract 0112003.7Appletonparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 46

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 70Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 4.31%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.6%Peak (2017)
  • 13Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2007 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55087011200
Filings climbed 86% over the past 8 months.
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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bell Heights

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.6/10. 26% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Outagamie County average of 33.5%.

Court records carry 70 eviction filings across 8 observed years. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.9/10. The worst year on record was 2017, when 4.6% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 4.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. At 24% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $79,464, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Outagamie County average of 3.9 closely.

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 55087011200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55087011200?

Census tract 55087011200 in the Bell Heights 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 55087011200?

Median gross rent is $1,071/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55087011200?

6.5% of residents in tract 55087011200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,946.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55087011200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 46th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 40th, household 76th, minority 48th, housing 33th.
Q5

Is tract 55087011200 considered part of Bell Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55087011200 fall within Bell Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55087011200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 70 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 55087011200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.31% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55087011200 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.5% 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. 5.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55087011200 compare to Appleton overall?

Tract 55087011200 scores 3.8/10, right in line with the parent city of Appleton at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Appleton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Appleton

Top eight tracts in Appleton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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