Within neighborhood
19
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079185400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,044 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 55079185400 covers part of the Bronzeville area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. roughly two in three of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 41%
Tract context
Occupied units406
Renter share59.4%
SVI overall0.75
Poverty rate23.6%
Median income$54,667
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
88
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0602, -87.9377 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bronzeville scores 5.3
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
23.6% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$996 rent vs county FMR
2.9
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.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 54%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%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
- 0%Grade C
- 100%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)
- 743Total filings over 13 yrs
- 15.92%Avg annual filing rate
- 22.3%Peak (2016)
- 58Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 198Total filings 2020-21
- 2.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.61×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.
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.
- 32.7%Housing insecurity
- 23.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 43.8%Food insecurity
- 53.2%SNAP enrollment
- 22.3%Transit barriers
- 14.6%No health insurance
- 21.3%Frequent mental distress
- 41.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bronzeville
Food insecurity runs 43.8% against 17.8% nationally. Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The poverty rate is 24%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 743 evictions over 13 years of observation. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.
The worst year on record was 2016, when 22.3% 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. In a typical year about 15.9% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 7.7/10.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079185400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079185400?
Census tract 55079185400 in the Bronzeville neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 55079185400?
Median gross rent is $996/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079185400?
23.6% of residents in tract 55079185400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,044.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079185400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 75th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 54th, minority 99th, housing 21th.
Q5
Is tract 55079185400 considered part of Bronzeville?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079185400 fall within Bronzeville (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079185400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 743 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079185400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 15.92% of renter households, peaking at 22.3% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079185400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.61× 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 55079185400 struggle to pay rent?
About 32.7% 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. 23.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079185400 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079185400 scores 5.3/10, 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 55079185400 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. 100% 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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