Ridgewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

What pushes it up most is local political climate at 8/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.2/10. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.

Average gross rent is $1,178, 17% below the Madison average. Court records carry 371 eviction filings across 13 observed years. 8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

It sits 0.8 points above the Dane County average of 4.2. Filings peaked in 2008 at 4.7% of renter households. In a typical year about 2.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.1 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $72,153.

54% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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