Grant Eviction Risk: Moderate , Kenosha
Tract 55059000300 · Kenosha County, WI · pop 5,137 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
For landlords sizing up Grant in Kenosha, census tract 55059000300 carries a moderate eviction-risk score of 4.7/10. That is riskier than roughly 27% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 36% of renter households, a high level, and 23% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,131 monthly, set against $53,214 in average yearly household income, roughly 26% of income at the averages. Renters make up 59% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kenosha and the region
Centroid at 42.6122, -87.8202 · click any tract to drill in
Why Grant scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Grant compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 49
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 52%Socioeconomic
- 26%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 24%Grade C
- 10%Grade D · redlined
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.
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)
- 494Total filings over 12 yrs
- 5.29%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.5%Peak (2007)
- 29Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Grant. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.8%Food insecurity
- 19.9%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 10.8%No health insurance
- 21.4%Frequent mental distress
- 35.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Grant
The score leans hardest on economic stress at 4.4/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Kenosha eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Kenosha County average of 4.7 and in line with the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 14.1% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.8% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 49th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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