Within parent city
67
th percentile
Elevated
Census Tract · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Stoughton Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55025012300 · Dane County, WI · pop 5,023 · 72% of tract blocks fall in Stoughton
Census tract 55025012300 covers part of Stoughton, WI, and scores 4/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,023. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.9/10.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units2,159
Renter share34.0%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate7.5%
Median income$83,092
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
National
42
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Stoughton and the region
Centroid at 42.8999, -89.2133 · click any tract to drill in
Why Stoughton scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Stoughton
7.9
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
7.5% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,196 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Stoughton
4.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.7
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Stoughton
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Stoughton
4.2
How Stoughton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 32%Household composition
- 11%Racial/ethnic minority
- 73%Housing & transportation
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)
- 361Total filings over 13 yrs
- 4.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.0%Peak (2014)
- 13Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 41% over the past 13 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.7%Food insecurity
- 10.2%SNAP enrollment
- 5.8%Transit barriers
- 6.4%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 26.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Stoughton
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.9/10. 14% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, regional political climate reads 7.6/10.
The filing record is not thin: 361 evictions over 13 years of observation. Cost burden runs 37% here against 41.3% across Dane County.
Food insecurity runs 9.7% against 17.8% nationally. The worst year on record was 2014, when 6.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 4.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 42% 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.
Against average income of $83,092, annual rent is just 17%.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55025012300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55025012300?
Census tract 55025012300 in Stoughton scores 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 55025012300?
Median gross rent is $1,196/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55025012300?
7.5% of residents in tract 55025012300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,023.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55025012300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 32th, minority 11th, housing 73th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55025012300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 361 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55025012300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.10% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 55025012300 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 55025012300 compare to Stoughton overall?
Tract 55025012300 scores 4/10, right in line with the parent city of Stoughton at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Stoughton; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Stoughton
Top eight tracts in Stoughton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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