Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

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.