Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally

Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079015900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,620 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 55079015900 covers part of the Cesar E. Chavez Drive area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,620 residents. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.

Risk score

4.6

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 25% Stable renters 41% Owners 34%

Tract context

Occupied units1,259

Renter share65.7%

SVI overall0.96

Poverty rate12.5%

Median income$45,493

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0216, -87.9474 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cesar E. Chavez Drive scores 4.6

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

12.5% poverty · this tract

3.1

Supply constraint

$941 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 Cesar E. Chavez Drive compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 96

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

90%Socioeconomic
98%Household composition
84%Racial/ethnic minority
85%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
43%Grade C
57%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)

736Total filings over 13 yrs
6.31%Avg annual filing rate
7.2%Peak (2011)
65Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

275Total filings 2020-21
3.6Avg monthly (observed)
4.7Pre-pandemic baseline
0.76×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 Cesar E. Chavez Drive. 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.

21.9%Housing insecurity
10.7%Utility-shutoff threat
29.1%Food insecurity
26.4%SNAP enrollment
13.5%Transit barriers
24.1%No health insurance
17.0%Frequent mental distress
34.5%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cesar E. Chavez Drive

This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Food insecurity runs 29.1% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Severe burden reaches 10%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 736 filings here across 13 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 21.9% against 14.2% nationally. At $941 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands.

Filings peaked in 2011 at 7.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 6.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 55079015900

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079015900?

Census tract 55079015900 in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (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 55079015900?

Median gross rent is $941/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079015900?

12.5% of residents in tract 55079015900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,620.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079015900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 90th, household 98th, minority 84th, housing 85th.

Is tract 55079015900 considered part of Cesar E. Chavez Drive?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079015900 fall within Cesar E. Chavez Drive (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079015900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 736 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079015900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.31% of renter households, peaking at 7.2% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079015900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.76× 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 55079015900 struggle to pay rent?

About 21.9% 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. 10.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079015900 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079015900 scores 4.6/10, right in line with 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 55079015900 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. 57% 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