Bassett Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

Cost burden runs 57% here against 41.3% across Dane County. 77% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $48,036, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. It sits 1.8 points above the Dane County average of 4.2.

The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The dominant input is local political climate at 8/10. Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.6/10. Court records carry 169 eviction filings across 13 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2001, when 2.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Madison. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.