Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Waupaca Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55135101000 · Waupaca County, WI · pop 6,055 · 77% of tract blocks fall in Waupaca
Tract 55135101000 sits in Waupaca, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4/10. It is home to 6,055 residents. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.6/10.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units2,616
Renter share35.4%
SVI overall0.48
Poverty rate8.1%
Median income$66,528
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
73
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
National
42
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Waupaca and the region
Centroid at 44.3529, -89.0880 · click any tract to drill in
Why Waupaca scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Waupaca
4.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
3.4
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
8.1% poverty · this tract
2.0
Supply constraint
$681 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Waupaca
3.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Waupaca
8.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from Waupaca
4.6
How Waupaca compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 48
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 42%Socioeconomic
- 30%Household composition
- 9%Racial/ethnic minority
- 83%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)
- 331Total filings over 19 yrs
- 1.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.3%Peak (2015)
- 19Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 111% 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.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.2%Food insecurity
- 13.3%SNAP enrollment
- 6.8%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Waupaca
Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2/10. Cost burden runs 28% here against 34.2% across Waupaca County.
On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.3/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 331 filings here across 19 tracked years.
Average gross rent is $681, 13% below the Waupaca average. Filings peaked in 2015 at 3.3% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.7% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 42nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.4/10. Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $66,528, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Waupaca County average of 3.7 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55135101000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55135101000?
Census tract 55135101000 in Waupaca 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 55135101000?
Median gross rent is $681/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 28% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55135101000?
8.1% of residents in tract 55135101000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,055.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55135101000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 48th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 42th, household 30th, minority 9th, housing 83th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55135101000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 331 eviction filings across 19 validated years in tract 55135101000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.71% of renter households, peaking at 3.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 55135101000 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.6% 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. 5.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 55135101000 compare to Waupaca overall?
Tract 55135101000 scores 4/10, right in line with the parent city of Waupaca at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Waupaca; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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