Within neighborhood
94
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
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.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 41%
Stable renters 31%
Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units444
Renter share72.7%
SVI overall0.98
Poverty rate56.5%
Median income$33,235
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
90
th percentile
High
Within county
98
th percentile
Very High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
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-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
56.5% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$862 rent vs county FMR
1.9
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 Center Street Marketplace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
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
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
- 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.
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)
- 649Total filings over 13 yrs
- 16.88%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.4%Peak (2014)
- 59Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.
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.
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.
- 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
Analysis
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079009800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079009800?
Census tract 55079009800 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.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55079009800?
Median gross rent is $862/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079009800?
56.5% of residents in tract 55079009800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,760.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079009800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 98th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 95th, household 95th, minority 100th, housing 90th.
Q5
Is tract 55079009800 considered part of Center Street Marketplace?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079009800 fall within Center Street Marketplace (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079009800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 649 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079009800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 16.88% of renter households, peaking at 24.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079009800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.68× 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 55079009800 struggle to pay rent?
About 38.0% 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. 28.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079009800 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079009800 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 55079009800 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. 21% 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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