College Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

96% 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. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $38,206, 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 dominant input is local political climate at 8/10.

The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 19.0% against 31.5% nationally.

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. At $1,175 a month, rents run 17% under what the rest of Madison commands. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 8 filings here across 5 tracked years.

Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Filings peaked in 2007 at 0.3% of renter households.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.