Greater Sandburg Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.2/10. 13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. 47% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Dane County average of 41.3%. The filing record is not thin: 525 evictions over 13 years of observation.

At $1,217 a month, rents run 14% under what the rest of Madison commands. Filings peaked in 2002 at 4.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Dane County average of 4.2 closely.

Annual rent works out to 18% of average household income of $80,938. 55% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.