Northwest Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wausau

At $744 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of Wausau commands. Against the Marathon County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.

The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the softer side, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.

Court records carry 354 eviction filings across 9 observed years. Filings peaked in 2014 at 4.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 3.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $50,302, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.