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Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079004800 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,454 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

With a score of 5.8/10, tract 55079004800 in the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,454. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

5.8

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 42% Stable renters 24% Owners 34%

Tract context

Occupied units1,051

Renter share66.6%

SVI overall0.97

Poverty rate40.2%

Median income$33,988

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0770, -87.9623 · click any tract to drill in

Why Center Street Marketplace 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

40.2% poverty · this tract

10.0

Supply constraint

$942 rent vs county FMR

2.5

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 Center Street Marketplace compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 97

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

95%Socioeconomic
98%Household composition
97%Racial/ethnic minority
72%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
13%Grade B
80%Grade C
0%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)

1,367Total filings over 13 yrs
13.26%Avg annual filing rate
15.7%Peak (2017)
138Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings climbed 75% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

548Total filings 2020-21
7.1Avg monthly (observed)
9.2Pre-pandemic baseline
0.77×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

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 Center Street Marketplace. 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.

41.0%Housing insecurity
31.8%Utility-shutoff threat
58.9%Food insecurity
71.8%SNAP enrollment
30.5%Transit barriers
18.9%No health insurance
24.0%Frequent mental distress
51.1%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace

Cost burden runs 64% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 71.8% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 58.9% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Set annual rent against average income of $33,988 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Sitting well above the midpoint, 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. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 1,367 evictions over 13 years of observation.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079004800

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079004800?

Census tract 55079004800 in the Center Street Marketplace 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.

What is the average rent in tract 55079004800?

Median gross rent is $942/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079004800?

40.2% of residents in tract 55079004800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,454.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079004800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 97th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 98th, minority 97th, housing 72th.

Is tract 55079004800 considered part of Center Street Marketplace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079004800 fall within Center Street Marketplace (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079004800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,367 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079004800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 13.26% of renter households, peaking at 15.7% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079004800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.77× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 55079004800 struggle to pay rent?

About 41.0% 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. 31.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079004800 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079004800 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 55079004800 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% 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.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org