Baraboo Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55111000401 · Sauk County, WI · pop 5,437 · 79% of tract blocks fall in Baraboo
Census tract 55111000401 covers part of Baraboo, WI, and scores 3.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,437. Against Sauk County at 31.8%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Baraboo and the region
Centroid at 43.4814, -89.7112 · click any tract to drill in
Why Baraboo scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Baraboo compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 56
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 81%Household composition
- 7%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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)
- 174Total filings over 14 yrs
- 1.64%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.8%Peak (2017)
- 32Filings 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.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.2%Food insecurity
- 10.6%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 6.8%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Baraboo
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.8/10. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.6/10.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.2/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 174 filings here across 14 tracked years.
Food insecurity runs 10.2% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2017, when 3.8% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 1.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
At 25% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $77,778, annual rent is just 14%.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
About tract 55111000401
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Highest-risk tracts in Baraboo
Top eight tracts in Baraboo ranked by composite eviction-risk score.