Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Iola Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55135100300 · Waupaca County, WI · pop 3,796 · 21% of tract blocks fall in Iola
55135100300 is a census tract in Iola, WI. It scores 4/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,796 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.5/10.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 12%
Owners 80%
Tract context
Occupied units1,701
Renter share19.8%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate8.6%
Median income$66,674
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
82
th percentile
High
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
National
42
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Iola and the region
Centroid at 44.5066, -89.1671 · click any tract to drill in
Why Iola scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Iola
4.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.4
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
8.6% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$746 rent vs county FMR
3.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Iola
5.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Iola
8.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Iola
5.7
How Iola compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 78%Household composition
- 6%Racial/ethnic minority
- 52%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 62Total filings over 18 yrs
- 1.01%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.6%Peak (2018)
- 10Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 900% over the past 19 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 11.8%SNAP enrollment
- 6.0%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 32.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Iola
On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.2/10. Severe burden reaches 13%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Waupaca County at 34.2%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened.
The filing record is not thin: 62 evictions over 18 years of observation. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10.
Filings peaked in 2018 at 2.6% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 20% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $66,674, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55135100300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55135100300?
Census tract 55135100300 in Iola scores 4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55135100300?
Median gross rent is $746/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55135100300?
8.6% of residents in tract 55135100300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,796.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55135100300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 26th, household 78th, minority 6th, housing 52th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55135100300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 62 eviction filings across 18 validated years in tract 55135100300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.01% of renter households, peaking at 2.6% in 2018. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 55135100300 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 55135100300 compare to Iola overall?
Tract 55135100300 scores 4/10, right in line with the parent city of Iola at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Iola; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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