Wausau Eviction Risk: Lower

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.4/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $928, 8% below the Wausau average.

Nationally it ranks #54,273 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 3.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $71,603, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 39% of renters.

It tracks the Marathon County average of 3.8 closely.

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.