Regent Eviction Risk: Elevated , Madison

Against Dane County at 41.3%, 76% of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $36,801 and the ratio lands at 51%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 9.5/10. The poverty rate is 38%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

75% 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. Against the Dane County average of 4.2, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.8 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. Court records carry 80 eviction filings across 13 observed years.

At $1,568 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Madison commands. Filings peaked in 2001 at 0.9% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 0.5% 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 2.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

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.