The Yards Eviction Risk: Elevated
1 census tracts · pop 3,511 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 6/10 · range 6–6
The Yards maps to a single census tract in Madison, WI, population 3,511. Scored across those inputs it reaches 6/10, placing it in the Elevated tier. 49% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, well above the Madison rate of 30.1%.
91% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building two streets over. The severe-burden share is 30%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay.
Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income here, past the 30% affordability line, which compresses the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 24%, which shows up in this model as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 7/10. Court records for this tract carry 257 eviction filings.
Filing activity peaked in 2002 at 2.8% of renter households. The most recent observed rate, 0.6% in 2017, is well off that peak. Among the 61 mapped neighborhoods of Madison, it ranks #1 by risk, the upper third.
For a like-for-like read, Mendota Hills and Hiestand score within a fraction of it. Average gross rent runs $1,435, close to the Madison average.
Because the boundary contains one tract, 6/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.
Neighborhoods with similar eviction risk
Same county, closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Risk heat across The Yards and the region
Click any tract to drill in · 1 tracts span score 6–6
Why The Yards scores 6
9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendlyThe Yards vs. parent city, state, U.S.
Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).
1 tracts in The Yards
Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.
| Tract↕ | Score↕ | Pop↕ | % over 30% on rent↕ | Average rent↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55025001605 | 6 | 3,511 | 49% | $1,435 |
CDC SVI percentile: 18
Pop-weighted across 1 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.
Court-record eviction history in The Yards
Aggregated across 1 validated constituent tract. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 257Total filings (sum)
- 1.46%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.8%Peak year (2002)
- 0.59%Latest filed (2017)
Eviction-adjacent indicators in The Yards
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
- 8.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility shutoff threat
- 10.7%Food insecurity
- 10.0%SNAP enrollment
- 7.0%No health insurance
- 22.3%Any disability
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