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Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally

Bluemound Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Appleton

Tract 55087012505 · Outagamie County, WI · pop 5,486 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi

55087012505 is a census tract in the Bluemound Heights area of Appleton, WI. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Pulling hardest the other way is court filing pressure at 0.9/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 23% Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units2,343
Renter share31.6%
SVI overall0.09
Poverty rate1.0%
Median income$98,859

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Bluemound Heights
Very Low
Within parent city
4 th percentile
Rank, 4th percentileLowHigh
#26 of 27 tracts In Appleton
Very Low
Within county
26 th percentile
Rank, 26th percentileLowHigh
#35 of 47 tracts In Outagamie County
Low
Within state
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#1,083 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Appleton and the region

Centroid at 44.3075, -88.4592 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bluemound Heights scores 3

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
1.0% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,135 rent vs county FMR
5.3
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 Bluemound Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bluemound Heights risk score vs. parent city / county / state3.0This tracttract 0125053.7Appletonparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 9

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)

  • 55Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 1.69%Avg annual filing rate
  • 3.5%Peak (2010)
  • 1Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2007 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55087012505
Filings dropped 88% over the past 8 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Bluemound Heights. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bluemound Heights

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. roughly one in four of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Outagamie County average of 33.5%. Food insecurity runs 7.2% against 17.8% nationally.

It sits 0.9 points below the Outagamie County average of 3.9. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 filings here across 8 tracked years.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Average gross rent is $1,135, 10% above the Appleton average. The worst year on record was 2010, when 3.5% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.7% 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 1.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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 55087012505

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55087012505?

Census tract 55087012505 in the Bluemound Heights 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 55087012505?

Median gross rent is $1,135/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55087012505?

1.0% of residents in tract 55087012505 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,486.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55087012505?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 9th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 6th, household 13th, minority 27th, housing 28th.
Q5

Is tract 55087012505 considered part of Bluemound Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55087012505 fall within Bluemound Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55087012505?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 55 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 55087012505 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.69% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55087012505 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.5% 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. 3.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55087012505 compare to Appleton overall?

Tract 55087012505 scores 3/10, lower than 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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