Within neighborhood
47
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079016500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,185 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 55079016500 covers part of the Cesar E. Chavez Drive area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,185. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 65% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 44%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units831
Renter share67.4%
SVI overall0.96
Poverty rate30.9%
Median income$41,927
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
69
th percentile
Elevated
Within county
81
th percentile
High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0151, -87.9119 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cesar E. Chavez Drive 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
30.9% poverty · this tract
7.7
Supply constraint
$959 rent vs county FMR
2.6
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.
- 97%Socioeconomic
- 93%Household composition
- 89%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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
- 0%Grade C
- 46%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)
- 520Total filings over 13 yrs
- 7.25%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.8%Peak (2015)
- 53Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 43% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 171Total filings 2020-21
- 2.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to baseline
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.
- 28.4%Housing insecurity
- 15.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 39.7%Food insecurity
- 40.0%SNAP enrollment
- 18.6%Transit barriers
- 29.1%No health insurance
- 19.2%Frequent mental distress
- 39.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Cesar E. Chavez Drive
Food insecurity runs 39.7% against 17.8% nationally. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. 67% 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.
Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.7/10. 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: 520 evictions over 13 years of observation. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Average gross rent is $959, 9% below the Milwaukee average. The worst year on record was 2015, when 9.8% of renter households were served.
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 7.3% of renter households face a filing.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079016500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079016500?
Census tract 55079016500 in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive 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 55079016500?
Median gross rent is $959/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079016500?
30.9% of residents in tract 55079016500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,185.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079016500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 96th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 97th, household 93th, minority 89th, housing 76th.
Q5
Is tract 55079016500 considered part of Cesar E. Chavez Drive?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079016500 fall within Cesar E. Chavez Drive (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079016500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 520 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079016500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.25% of renter households, peaking at 9.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079016500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.71× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079016500 struggle to pay rent?
About 28.4% 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. 15.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079016500 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079016500 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 55079016500 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. 46% 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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5.8
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