Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wausau
Tract 55073000200 · Marathon County, WI · pop 3,286 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 4.1/10, tract 55073000200 in the Highland Park area of Wausau, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,286 residents. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wausau and the region
Centroid at 44.9688, -89.6089 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Park scores 4.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Highland Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 16
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 24%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 31%Racial/ethnic minority
- 8%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)
- 136Total filings over 9 yrs
- 3.72%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.2%Peak (2015)
- 17Filings 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.
- 9.6%Housing insecurity
- 5.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.8%Food insecurity
- 12.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.7%Transit barriers
- 7.5%No health insurance
- 15.6%Frequent mental distress
- 27.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Highland Park
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10. 46% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Marathon County average of 37.6%.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.4/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 136 filings here across 9 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.2% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 44th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 2.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $77,805, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Marathon County average of 3.8 closely. Average gross rent is $970, close to the Wausau average. 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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