Riverlife Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wausau

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 8.4/10.

Against the Marathon County average of 3.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.6 points. SNAP participation runs 29.4% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 383 filings here across 9 tracked years. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. Filings peaked in 2013 at 6.7% of renter households.

In a typical year about 4.6% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.5 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.