Hiestand Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

It sits 1.8 points above the Dane County average of 4.2. What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10.

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Court records carry 580 eviction filings across 13 observed years. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.9/10.

Filings peaked in 2010 at 6.6% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,297, 8% below the Madison average.

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 4.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #18,163 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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