Janesville Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55105001201 · Rock County, WI · pop 6,574 · 47% of tract blocks fall in Janesville
Census tract 55105001201 runs through Janesville. With 6,574 residents, it scores 4.3/10 for landlords. That is riskier than roughly 17% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
About 11% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a modest level, and 0% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,211 a month against an average household income of $89,310 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 21% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Janesville and the region
Centroid at 42.6389, -89.0957 · click any tract to drill in
Why Janesville scores 2.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Janesville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 25
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 12%Socioeconomic
- 67%Household composition
- 13%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%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)
- 163Total filings over 12 yrs
- 3.67%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.3%Peak (2012)
- 13Filings 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.
- 7.2%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.3%Food insecurity
- 8.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.0%Transit barriers
- 5.9%No health insurance
- 14.4%Frequent mental distress
- 27.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Janesville
The heaviest input here 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 below the Rock County average of 5.2 and in line with the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 25th 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.
In CDC survey modeling, about 7.2% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 4.0% 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.