Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079009800 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,760 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Tract 55079009800 sits in the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. Population here is 1,760. What pushes it up most is economic stress at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0598, -87.9541 · click any tract to drill in
Why Center Street Marketplace scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Center Street Marketplace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 98
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 95%Socioeconomic
- 95%Household composition
- 100%Racial/ethnic minority
- 90%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 79%Grade C
- 21%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.
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)
- 649Total filings over 13 yrs
- 16.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.4%Peak (2014)
- 59Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 236Total filings 2020-21
- 3.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.68×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Center Street Marketplace. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 38.0%Housing insecurity
- 28.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 57.1%Food insecurity
- 66.8%SNAP enrollment
- 29.5%Transit barriers
- 18.2%No health insurance
- 24.1%Frequent mental distress
- 46.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace
SNAP participation runs 66.8% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 56%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 28.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 57% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.9/10. On the high side, 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. At $862 a month, rents run 19% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Court records carry 649 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 24.4% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Milwaukee Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
In a typical year about 16.9% 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.
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