Franklin Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wausau
Tract 55073000700 · Marathon County, WI · pop 5,283 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
With a score of 5.3/10, tract 55073000700 in the Franklin Heights area of Wausau, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,283. 29% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wausau and the region
Centroid at 44.9557, -89.6027 · click any tract to drill in
Why Franklin Heights scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Franklin Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 79
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 73%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 30%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%Housing & transportation
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)
- 314Total filings over 9 yrs
- 2.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.6%Peak (2017)
- 52Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.3%Housing insecurity
- 6.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.7%Food insecurity
- 18.0%SNAP enrollment
- 8.4%Transit barriers
- 9.0%No health insurance
- 16.2%Frequent mental distress
- 34.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Franklin Heights
What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. It sits 1.5 points above the Marathon County average of 3.8.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. Against Marathon County at 37.6%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Average gross rent is $839, 17% below the Wausau average. Court records carry 314 eviction filings across 9 observed years.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.9/10. The worst year on record was 2017, when 3.6% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 2.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $59,722, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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