Capitol Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079003500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,269 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
55079003500 is a census tract in the Capitol Heights area of Milwaukee, WI. It scores 5.8/10 for landlords. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0936, -87.9983 · click any tract to drill in
Why Capitol Heights scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Capitol Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 84
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 82%Socioeconomic
- 91%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 50%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 100%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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)
- 500Total filings over 13 yrs
- 9.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.3%Peak (2013)
- 48Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 247Total filings 2020-21
- 3.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.88×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 27.0%Housing insecurity
- 18.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 37.2%Food insecurity
- 44.0%SNAP enrollment
- 18.3%Transit barriers
- 12.6%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 39.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Capitol Heights
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Housing insecurity runs 27.0% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The filing record is not thin: 500 evictions over 13 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2013 at 14.3% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Milwaukee Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 9.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #20,506 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
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.
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