Bronzeville Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 59% of renters here are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 33%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

The dominant input is economic stress at 8.3/10. 73% 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.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.

17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.

Average gross rent is $858, 19% below the Milwaukee average. The filing record is not thin: 752 evictions over 13 years of observation.

Filings peaked in 2014 at 19.0% 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 12.6% of renter households face a filing.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.