Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079006600 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,624 · neighborhood within 1.3 mi
Tract 55079006600 sits in the Bronzeville area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 1,624. Severe burden reaches 31%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0754, -87.9314 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bronzeville scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bronzeville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 76%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 47%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
- 73%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)
- 1,556Total filings over 13 yrs
- 18.63%Avg annual filing rate
- 23.0%Peak (2007)
- 120Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 399Total filings 2020-21
- 5.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 9.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.55×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bronzeville. 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.
- 33.2%Housing insecurity
- 23.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 46.0%Food insecurity
- 56.5%SNAP enrollment
- 23.1%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 43.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bronzeville
Housing insecurity runs 33.2% against 14.2% nationally. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.6/10. The poverty rate is 34%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $35,980, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 68% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. 55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Disability prevalence runs 43.8% against 31.5% 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,556 filings here across 13 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2007 at 23.0% of renter households.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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