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Bay View Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079186600 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,953 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi

Census tract 55079186600 covers part of the Bay View area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,953 residents. Cost burden runs 58% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 43% Stable renters 31% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units1,047
Renter share74.6%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate29.9%
Median income$52,772

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 12 tracts In Bay View
Very High
Within parent city
68 th percentile
Rank, 68th percentileLowHigh
#67 of 210 tracts In Milwaukee
Elevated
Within county
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#47 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0006, -87.9132 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bay View scores 5.8

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
29.9% poverty · this tract
7.5
Supply constraint
$1,412 rent vs county FMR
6.2
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.
Bay View risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 186600Milwaukee: 4.44.4Milwaukeeparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 74

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 626Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 10.13%Avg annual filing rate
  • 14.7%Peak (2014)
  • 59Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550791866002003: 32 filings (7.84/100 renter HHs)2004: 40 filings (9.80/100 renter HHs)2007: 38 filings (8.21/100 renter HHs)2008: 36 filings (7.78/100 renter HHs)2009: 40 filings (8.64/100 renter HHs)2010: 30 filings (6.94/100 renter HHs)2011: 49 filings (10.32/100 renter HHs)2012: 44 filings (9.26/100 renter HHs)2013: 69 filings (14.53/100 renter HHs)2014: 70 filings (14.74/100 renter HHs)2015: 66 filings (13.89/100 renter HHs)2016: 53 filings (9.36/100 renter HHs)2017: 59 filings (10.42/100 renter HHs)
Filings climbed 84% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 173Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 4.8Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.47×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2020-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2020-08-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2020-11-01: 3 filings (0.71× baseline)2020-12-01: 6 filings (1.25× baseline)2021-01-01: 3 filings (0.56× baseline)2021-02-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2021-03-01: 1 filings (0.28× baseline)2021-04-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2021-05-01: 2 filings (0.45× baseline)2021-06-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2021-07-01: 2 filings (0.32× baseline)2021-08-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2021-09-01: 4 filings (0.74× baseline)2021-10-01: 7 filings (1.40× baseline)2021-11-01: 4 filings (0.95× baseline)2021-12-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2022-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2022-03-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2022-04-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2022-05-01: 4 filings (0.91× baseline)2022-06-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2022-07-01: 3 filings (0.48× baseline)2022-08-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2022-09-01: 3 filings (0.56× baseline)2022-10-01: 3 filings (0.60× baseline)2022-11-01: 4 filings (0.95× baseline)2022-12-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2023-01-01: 4 filings (0.74× baseline)2023-02-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2023-03-01: 3 filings (0.83× baseline)2023-04-01: 3 filings (0.58× baseline)2023-05-01: 3 filings (0.68× baseline)2023-06-01: 1 filings (0.18× baseline)2023-07-01: 2 filings (0.32× baseline)2023-08-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2023-09-01: 3 filings (0.56× baseline)2023-10-01: 3 filings (0.60× baseline)2023-11-01: 4 filings (0.95× baseline)2023-12-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2024-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2024-03-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2024-04-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2024-05-01: 1 filings (0.23× baseline)2024-06-01: 3 filings (0.54× baseline)2024-07-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2024-08-01: 3 filings (0.48× baseline)2024-09-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2024-10-01: 2 filings (0.40× baseline)2024-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-12-01: 3 filings (0.63× baseline)2025-01-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2025-02-01: 1 filings (0.20× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 3 filings (0.58× baseline)2025-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-06-01: 3 filings (0.54× baseline)2025-07-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2025-08-01: 4 filings (0.65× baseline)2025-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-10-01: 5 filings (1.00× baseline)2025-11-01: 2 filings (0.48× baseline)2025-12-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2026-01-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Bay View

At $1,412 a month, rents run 33% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

This is renter territory: 75% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 32% of average household income of $52,772, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.

The poverty rate is 30%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

Food insecurity runs 29.4% against 17.8% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 626 evictions over 13 years of observation. Housing insecurity runs 21.8% against 14.2% nationally.

The voucher gap is 12.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

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 55079186600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079186600?

Census tract 55079186600 in the Bay View neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 55079186600?

Median gross rent is $1,412/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079186600?

29.9% of residents in tract 55079186600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,953.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079186600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 36th, minority 70th, housing 51th.
Q5

Is tract 55079186600 considered part of Bay View?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079186600 fall within Bay View (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079186600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 626 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079186600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 10.13% of renter households, peaking at 14.7% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079186600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.47× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 55079186600 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.8% 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. 12.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079186600 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079186600 scores 5.8/10, higher 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 55079186600 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 67% 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.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Milwaukee

Top eight tracts in Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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