Janesville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55105000900 · Rock County, WI · pop 2,992
Janesville anchors census tract 55105000900, which lands at $1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 37th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
35% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 4% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,209 a month against an average household income of $88,485 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. About 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Janesville and the region
Centroid at 42.6843, -88.9921 · click any tract to drill in
Why Janesville scores 2.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Janesville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 9
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 4%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 32%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)
- 60Total filings over 12 yrs
- 1.90%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2008)
- 3Filings 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.
- 6.9%Housing insecurity
- 3.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.8%Food insecurity
- 7.5%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 14.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Janesville
What moves this score most is 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 safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 6.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 3.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 9th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
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.