Within neighborhood
75
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079008600 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 760 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 55079008600 covers part of the Bronzeville area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 760 residents. The severe-burden share is 48%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 46%
Stable renters 27%
Owners 27%
Tract context
Occupied units376
Renter share73.7%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate32.0%
Median income$20,392
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
97
th percentile
Very High
Within county
90
th percentile
Very High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0676, -87.9352 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bronzeville scores 5.8
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
32.0% poverty · this tract
8.0
Supply constraint
$1,033 rent vs county FMR
3.2
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 Bronzeville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 75
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 65%Household composition
- 95%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 50%Grade C
- 50%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)
- 615Total filings over 13 yrs
- 17.10%Avg annual filing rate
- 25.7%Peak (2013)
- 32Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 38% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 208Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.72×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 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.
- 41.6%Housing insecurity
- 31.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 56.8%Food insecurity
- 69.5%SNAP enrollment
- 29.7%Transit barriers
- 17.1%No health insurance
- 24.9%Frequent mental distress
- 47.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bronzeville
Set annual rent against average income of $20,392 and the ratio lands at 61%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Cost burden runs 63% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
Food insecurity runs 56.8% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 31.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
74% 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. The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
The filing record is not thin: 615 evictions over 13 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2013 at 25.7% of renter households.
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. In a typical year about 17.1% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079008600
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079008600?
Census tract 55079008600 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 55079008600?
Median gross rent is $1,033/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079008600?
32.0% of residents in tract 55079008600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 760.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079008600?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 79th, household 65th, minority 95th, housing 44th.
Q5
Is tract 55079008600 considered part of Bronzeville?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079008600 fall within Bronzeville (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079008600?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 615 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079008600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 17.10% of renter households, peaking at 25.7% in 2013. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079008600 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× 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 55079008600 struggle to pay rent?
About 41.6% 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. 31.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079008600 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079008600 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 55079008600 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. 50% 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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