Downtown Eviction Risk: Moderate , Racine
Tract 55101000400 · Racine County, WI · pop 3,062 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
The Downtown neighborhood of Racine anchors census tract 55101000400, which lands at 5.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 52% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 33% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $937 a month against an average household income of $43,198 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 59% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Racine and the region
Centroid at 42.7350, -87.7853 · click any tract to drill in
Why Downtown scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Downtown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 100%Socioeconomic
- 88%Household composition
- 79%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
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
- 62%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.
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)
- 1,258Total filings over 11 yrs
- 14.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.5%Peak (2014)
- 109Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Downtown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 29.9%Housing insecurity
- 19.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.9%Food insecurity
- 46.4%SNAP enrollment
- 20.2%Transit barriers
- 23.5%No health insurance
- 20.8%Frequent mental distress
- 43.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Downtown
The heaviest input here is economic stress at 8.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Racine eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Racine County average of 4.9 and above the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,258 eviction filings here over 11 tracked years, with about 14.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 18.5% of renter households in 2014.
The tract is Hispanic or Latino and Black and ranks around the 91st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Racine
Top eight tracts in Racine ranked by composite eviction-risk score.