Barton Eviction Risk: Moderate , West Bend
Tract 55131420401 · Washington County, WI · pop 2,562 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
55131420401 is a census tract in the Barton area of West Bend, WI. It scores 5/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,562 residents. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West Bend and the region
Centroid at 43.4246, -88.1825 · click any tract to drill in
Why Barton scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Barton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 20%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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)
- 141Total filings over 18 yrs
- 1.45%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.1%Peak (2013)
- 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Barton. 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.
- 8.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.8%Food insecurity
- 11.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 7.6%No health insurance
- 16.4%Frequent mental distress
- 28.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Barton
Pulling hardest the other way is eviction-process difficulty at 2.8/10. Cost burden runs 43% here against 36.7% across Washington County.
Against the Washington County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.8/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 141 filings here across 18 tracked years. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Food insecurity runs 10.8% against 17.8% nationally.
Filings peaked in 2013 at 3.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Average gross rent is $1,052, close to the West Bend average.
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.