Within neighborhood
64
th percentile
Elevated
Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally
Bay View Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079018500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,901 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
With a score of 4/10, tract 55079018500 in the Bay View area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,901 residents. The severe-burden share is 42%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
4
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 13%
Stable renters 13%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units632
Renter share26.1%
SVI overall0.62
Poverty rate12.2%
Median income$68,478
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
20
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
38
th percentile
Low
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9844, -87.9144 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bay View scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Milwaukee
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
12.2% poverty · this tract
3.1
Supply constraint
$1,286 rent vs county FMR
5.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Milwaukee
2.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Milwaukee
6.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Milwaukee
5.5
How Bay View compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 62
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 75%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 49%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 48%Grade C
- 2%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.
Eviction filings
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)
- 38Total filings over 12 yrs
- 1.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.6%Peak (2014)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 17Total filings 2020-21
- 0.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bay View. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.5%Housing insecurity
- 9.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.5%Food insecurity
- 24.9%SNAP enrollment
- 11.0%Transit barriers
- 13.6%No health insurance
- 18.3%Frequent mental distress
- 34.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bay View
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Average gross rent is $1,286, 21% above the Milwaukee average. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Cost burden runs 52% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. SNAP participation runs 24.9% against 15.2% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 38 evictions over 12 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2014 at 3.6% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.
In a typical year about 1.9% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 42% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.6/10.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079018500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079018500?
Census tract 55079018500 in the Bay View neighborhood scores 4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55079018500?
Median gross rent is $1,286/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079018500?
12.2% of residents in tract 55079018500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,901.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079018500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 62th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 56th, minority 49th, housing 39th.
Q5
Is tract 55079018500 considered part of Bay View?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079018500 fall within Bay View (neighborhood centroid within 1.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079018500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 38 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 55079018500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.91% of renter households, peaking at 3.6% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079018500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079018500 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.5% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079018500 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079018500 scores 4/10, lower than the parent city of Milwaukee at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Milwaukee eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079018500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 2% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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