West Bend Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55131420300 · Washington County, WI · pop 5,641
Census tract 55131420300 covers part of West Bend, WI, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,641 residents. 19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West Bend and the region
Centroid at 43.4104, -88.1663 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Bend scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Bend compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 23
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 11%Household composition
- 15%Racial/ethnic minority
- 50%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)
- 325Total filings over 18 yrs
- 2.30%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2001)
- 23Filings 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.
- 9.0%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.4%Food insecurity
- 10.4%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 7.4%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 28.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Bend
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 2.1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.1/10. Against Washington County at 36.7%, 45% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Average gross rent is $891, 17% below the West Bend average. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.8/10. Court records carry 325 eviction filings across 18 observed years.
Food insecurity runs 10.4% against 17.8% nationally. Against the Washington County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. Filings peaked in 2001 at 3.5% of renter households.
In a typical year about 2.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #41,206 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $81,391, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. 32% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in West Bend
Top eight tracts in West Bend ranked by composite eviction-risk score.