Janesville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55105000700 · Rock County, WI · pop 4,400
Eviction risk in Janesville eviction risk in Rock County centers on tract 55105000700, which scores 5.3/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 4,400 residents. On the national scale it ranks #44,181 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 43% of renter households, a severe level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $994 a month while the average household earns $59,797 a year, roughly 20% of income at the averages. About 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Janesville and the region
Centroid at 42.7102, -88.9939 · click any tract to drill in
Why Janesville scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Janesville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 58
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 47%Socioeconomic
- 76%Household composition
- 24%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%Housing & transportation
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)
- 338Total filings over 12 yrs
- 3.27%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2012)
- 16Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 10.7%Housing insecurity
- 6.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.9%Food insecurity
- 15.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 9.5%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Janesville
The score leans hardest on tenant organizing strength at 7.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Janesville eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Rock County average of 5.2 and above the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 58th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 6.1% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
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 Janesville
Top eight tracts in Janesville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.