Airport Gateway Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079021700 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 6,228 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
55079021700 is a census tract in the Airport Gateway area of Milwaukee, WI. It scores 3.1/10 for landlords. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.6/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9405, -87.9131 · click any tract to drill in
Why Airport Gateway scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Airport Gateway compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 73
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 62%Socioeconomic
- 60%Household composition
- 44%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%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
- 0%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)
- 441Total filings over 13 yrs
- 5.89%Avg annual filing rate
- 10.0%Peak (2007)
- 46Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 136Total filings 2020-21
- 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.73×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Airport Gateway. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 12.2%Housing insecurity
- 6.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.6%Food insecurity
- 16.5%SNAP enrollment
- 8.5%Transit barriers
- 12.0%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 32.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Airport Gateway
35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.
On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 441 filings here across 13 tracked years.
At $1,171 a month, rents run 11% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Filings peaked in 2007 at 10.0% 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 5.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 19% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $79,979, annual rent is just 18%.
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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