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Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally

Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara Eviction Risk: Moderate , Madison

Tract 55025002000 · Dane County, WI · pop 6,234 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

Tract 55025002000 sits in the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara area of Madison eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. The dominant input is local political climate at 8/10.

Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 31% Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units3,067
Renter share48.9%
SVI overall0.15
Poverty rate14.6%
Median income$81,211

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara
Moderate
Within parent city
62 th percentile
Rank, 62nd percentileLowHigh
#28 of 72 tracts In Madison
Elevated
Within county
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 125 tracts In Dane County
High
Within state
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#144 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Madison and the region

Centroid at 43.0976, -89.3388 · click any tract to drill in

Why Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara scores 5.4

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
14.6% poverty · this tract
3.6
Supply constraint
$1,444 rent vs county FMR
4.8
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 Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.4This tracttract 0020004.6Madisonparent city4.3Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 15

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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)

  • 563Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 3.63%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.1%Peak (2012)
  • 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2001 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55025002000
Filings dropped 63% 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 Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara

Sitting well above the midpoint, regional political climate reads 7.6/10. 14% 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 1.2 points above the Dane County average of 4.2. 36% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Dane County average of 41.3%.

The filing record is not thin: 563 evictions over 13 years of observation. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Food insecurity runs 9.8% against 17.8% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2012, when 6.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 3.6% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 55025002000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025002000?

Census tract 55025002000 in the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara neighborhood scores 5.4/10 (Moderate 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 55025002000?

Median gross rent is $1,444/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55025002000?

14.6% of residents in tract 55025002000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,234.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55025002000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 15th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 3th, minority 30th, housing 32th.
Q5

Is tract 55025002000 considered part of Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55025002000 fall within Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025002000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 563 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025002000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.63% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2012. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55025002000 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.1% 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. 5.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55025002000 compare to Madison overall?

Tract 55025002000 scores 5.4/10, 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 55025002000 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 36% 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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