Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #24,859 of 84,120 nationally
Lower Campus Eviction Risk: Moderate , Eau Claire
Tract 55035001700 · Eau Claire County, WI · pop 5,674 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
Tract 55035001700 sits in the Lower Campus area of Eau Claire eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.4/10. It is home to 5,674 residents. Cost burden runs 50% here against 32.8% across Eau Claire County.
Risk score
5.4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 27%
Stable renters 27%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units1,249
Renter share54.0%
SVI overall0.26
Poverty rate32.3%
Median income$56,112
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
100
th percentile
Very High
Within state
91
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Eau Claire and the region
Centroid at 44.7980, -91.5006 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lower Campus scores 5.4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Eau Claire
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.5
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
32.3% poverty · this tract
8.1
Supply constraint
$959 rent vs county FMR
3.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Eau Claire
4.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Eau Claire
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Eau Claire
5.3
How Lower Campus compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 26
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 58%Socioeconomic
- 2%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%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)
- 52Total filings over 10 yrs
- 0.95%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.6%Peak (2010)
- 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 10 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.
- 11.0%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.8%Food insecurity
- 16.5%SNAP enrollment
- 11.7%Transit barriers
- 7.9%No health insurance
- 25.0%Frequent mental distress
- 32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lower Campus
The severe-burden share is 34%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.5/10. Against the Eau Claire County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.5 points.
On the high side, economic stress reads 8.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 52 evictions over 10 years of observation.
Filings peaked in 2010 at 1.6% of renter households. Average gross rent is $959, 8% below the Eau Claire average. In a typical year about 1.0% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55035001700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55035001700?
Census tract 55035001700 in the Lower Campus 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 55035001700?
Median gross rent is $959/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55035001700?
32.3% of residents in tract 55035001700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,674.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55035001700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 58th, household 2th, minority 22th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 55035001700 considered part of Lower Campus?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55035001700 fall within Lower Campus (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55035001700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 52 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 55035001700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.95% of renter households, peaking at 1.6% in 2010. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 55035001700 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.0% 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. 6.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 55035001700 compare to Eau Claire overall?
Tract 55035001700 scores 5.4/10, higher than the parent city of Eau Claire at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Eau Claire eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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