Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079016800 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,922 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
55079016800 is a census tract in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive area of Milwaukee, WI. It scores 5.8/10 for landlords. It is home to 2,922 residents. Adults with no health insurance runs 39.2% against 11.3% nationally.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0104, -87.9294 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cesar E. Chavez Drive scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Cesar E. Chavez Drive compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%Housing & transportation
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
- 100%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)
- 724Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 9.8%Peak (2013)
- 63Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 235Total 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 Cesar E. Chavez Drive. 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.
- 38.3%Housing insecurity
- 22.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 55.1%Food insecurity
- 57.6%SNAP enrollment
- 26.4%Transit barriers
- 39.2%No health insurance
- 21.7%Frequent mental distress
- 47.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cesar E. Chavez Drive
Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.7/10. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 22.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
At $839 a month, rents run 21% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 724 filings here across 13 tracked years.
The worst year on record was 2013, when 9.8% of renter households were served. 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.
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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