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Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079008100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,283 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi

With a score of 5.8/10, tract 55079008100 in the Bronzeville area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs around two-thirds here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 53% Stable renters 25% Owners 22%
Tract context
Occupied units512
Renter share78.1%
SVI overall0.86
Poverty rate44.9%
Median income$32,637

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#8 of 17 tracts In Bronzeville
Elevated
Within parent city
77 th percentile
Rank, 77th percentileLowHigh
#50 of 210 tracts In Milwaukee
High
Within county
91 th percentile
Rank, 91st percentileLowHigh
#28 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
Very 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 43.0675, -87.9074 · click any tract to drill in

Why Bronzeville 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
44.9% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,012 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Bronzeville compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Bronzeville risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 008100Milwaukee: 4.44.4Milwaukeeparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 86

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)

  • 612Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 12.62%Avg annual filing rate
  • 14.0%Peak (2004)
  • 39Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550790081002003: 57 filings (13.80/100 renter HHs)2004: 58 filings (14.04/100 renter HHs)2007: 43 filings (11.85/100 renter HHs)2008: 41 filings (11.29/100 renter HHs)2009: 55 filings (15.15/100 renter HHs)2010: 41 filings (10.46/100 renter HHs)2011: 49 filings (13.57/100 renter HHs)2012: 53 filings (14.68/100 renter HHs)2013: 49 filings (13.57/100 renter HHs)2014: 44 filings (12.19/100 renter HHs)2015: 43 filings (11.91/100 renter HHs)2016: 40 filings (10.93/100 renter HHs)2017: 39 filings (10.66/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 32% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 158Total filings 2020-21
  • 2.1Avg monthly (observed)
  • 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.57×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 5 filings (1.04× baseline)2020-02-01: 1 filings (0.38× 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: 5 filings (1.47× baseline)2020-08-01: 1 filings (0.19× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 1 filings (0.28× baseline)2020-11-01: 4 filings (2.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 5 filings (1.47× baseline)2021-01-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2021-04-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2021-05-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2021-06-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2021-07-01: 2 filings (0.59× baseline)2021-08-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2021-09-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2021-10-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2021-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 3 filings (0.88× baseline)2022-01-01: 3 filings (0.63× baseline)2022-02-01: 1 filings (0.42× baseline)2022-03-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2022-04-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2022-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-06-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2022-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2022-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-10-01: 1 filings (0.28× baseline)2022-11-01: 3 filings (1.50× baseline)2022-12-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2023-01-01: 3 filings (0.63× baseline)2023-02-01: 6 filings (2.50× baseline)2023-03-01: 4 filings (1.11× baseline)2023-04-01: 1 filings (0.25× baseline)2023-05-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2023-06-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-07-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2023-08-01: 3 filings (0.58× baseline)2023-09-01: 4 filings (0.83× baseline)2023-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 4 filings (2.00× baseline)2023-12-01: 2 filings (0.59× baseline)2024-01-01: 4 filings (0.83× baseline)2024-02-01: 2 filings (0.77× baseline)2024-03-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2024-04-01: 6 filings (1.50× baseline)2024-05-01: 5 filings (1.04× baseline)2024-06-01: 4 filings (1.00× baseline)2024-07-01: 3 filings (0.88× baseline)2024-08-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2024-09-01: 2 filings (0.42× baseline)2024-10-01: 2 filings (0.56× baseline)2024-11-01: 1 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-12-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2025-01-01: 1 filings (0.21× baseline)2025-02-01: 2 filings (0.83× baseline)2025-03-01: 3 filings (0.83× baseline)2025-04-01: 5 filings (1.25× baseline)2025-05-01: 4 filings (0.83× baseline)2025-06-01: 2 filings (0.50× baseline)2025-07-01: 3 filings (0.88× baseline)2025-08-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2025-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-10-01: 1 filings (0.28× baseline)2025-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-12-01: 1 filings (0.29× baseline)2026-01-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 2 filings (20.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 4 filings (40.00× 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 Bronzeville. 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 Bronzeville

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 45.4% against 15.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 45%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 37.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $32,637, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 78% 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.

Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 612 eviction filings across 13 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2004, when 14.0% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079008100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079008100?

Census tract 55079008100 in the Bronzeville 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 55079008100?

Median gross rent is $1,012/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 68% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079008100?

44.9% of residents in tract 55079008100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,283.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079008100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 75th, household 91th, minority 93th, housing 72th.
Q5

Is tract 55079008100 considered part of Bronzeville?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079008100 fall within Bronzeville (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079008100?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 612 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079008100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.62% of renter households, peaking at 14.0% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079008100 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.57× 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 55079008100 struggle to pay rent?

About 27.3% 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. 19.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079008100 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079008100 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 55079008100 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. 65% 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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