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Neighborhood · Ranked #18,163 of 84,120 nationally

Glen Oak Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

Tract 55025000408 · Dane County, WI · pop 2,022 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi

With a score of 6/10, tract 55025000408 in the Glen Oak Hills area of Madison, WI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,022 residents. The severe-burden share is 39%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 58% Stable renters 33% Owners 9%
Tract context
Occupied units1,371
Renter share90.2%
SVI overall0.70
Poverty rate12.2%
Median income$39,973

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 2 tracts In Glen Oak Hills
Very High
Within parent city
90 th percentile
Rank, 90th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 72 tracts In Madison
Very High
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#20 of 125 tracts In Dane County
High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Madison and the region

Centroid at 43.0579, -89.4854 · click any tract to drill in

Why Glen Oak Hills scores 6

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Madison
8.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
12.2% poverty · this tract
3.1
Supply constraint
$1,333 rent vs county FMR
4.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Madison
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Madison
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Madison
5.5

How Glen Oak Hills compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Glen Oak Hills risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 0004084.6Madisonparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 70

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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)

  • 131Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 1.05%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.0%Peak (2016)
  • 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55025000408
Filings climbed 40% over the past 13 months.
Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Glen Oak Hills. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Glen Oak Hills

Against Dane County at 41.3%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened. This is renter territory: 90% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Annualized rent equals 40% of average household income of $39,973, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 131 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Housing insecurity runs 7.1% against 14.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 55025000408

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025000408?

Census tract 55025000408 in the Glen Oak Hills neighborhood scores 6/10 (Elevated 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 55025000408?

Median gross rent is $1,333/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55025000408?

12.2% of residents in tract 55025000408 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,022.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55025000408?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 70th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 45th, household 68th, minority 41th, housing 94th.
Q5

Is tract 55025000408 considered part of Glen Oak Hills?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025000408 fall within Glen Oak Hills (neighborhood centroid within 1.0 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025000408?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 131 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025000408 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.05% of renter households, peaking at 2.0% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55025000408 struggle to pay rent?

About 7.1% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55025000408 compare to Madison overall?

Tract 55025000408 scores 6/10, higher than the parent city of Madison at 4.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Madison eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Madison

Top eight tracts in Madison ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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