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

Greenbush Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

Tract 55025001200 · Dane County, WI · pop 6,781 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 55025001200 sits in the Greenbush area of Madison eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 6/10. Population here is 6,781. The severe-burden share is 37%, 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 40% Stable renters 37% Owners 23%
Tract context
Occupied units2,942
Renter share76.4%
SVI overall0.31
Poverty rate33.8%
Median income$61,618

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Greenbush
Moderate
Within parent city
97 th percentile
Rank, 97th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 72 tracts In Madison
Very High
Within county
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 125 tracts In Dane County
Very 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 43.0626, -89.4056 · click any tract to drill in

Why Greenbush 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
33.8% poverty · this tract
8.4
Supply constraint
$1,475 rent vs county FMR
5.0
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 Greenbush compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Greenbush risk score vs. parent city / county / state6.0This tracttract 0012004.6Madisonparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 31

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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)

  • 164Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 0.65%Avg annual filing rate
  • 1.2%Peak (2008)
  • 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55025001200
Filings dropped 60% over the past 13 months.
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 Greenbush

The poverty rate is 34%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. 76% 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. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.4/10.

Cost burden runs 52% here against 41.3% across Dane County. Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points. Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10.

On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Court records carry 164 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2008, when 1.2% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 0.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 78% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 55025001200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025001200?

Census tract 55025001200 in the Greenbush 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 55025001200?

Median gross rent is $1,475/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55025001200?

33.8% of residents in tract 55025001200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,781.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55025001200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 31th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 1th, minority 27th, housing 70th.
Q5

Is tract 55025001200 considered part of Greenbush?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025001200 fall within Greenbush (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025001200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 164 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025001200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.65% of renter households, peaking at 1.2% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55025001200 struggle to pay rent?

About 11.3% 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. 7.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55025001200 compare to Madison overall?

Tract 55025001200 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.
Q9

Was tract 55025001200 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 9% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Madison

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

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