Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079017300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,245 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Tract 55079017300 sits in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.2/10. Population here is 4,245. SNAP participation runs 42.0% against 15.2% nationally.

Risk score

5.2

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 27% Owners 52%

Tract context

Occupied units1,043

Renter share47.8%

SVI overall0.82

Poverty rate18.0%

Median income$44,114

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0037, -87.9488 · click any tract to drill in

Why Cesar E. Chavez Drive scores 5.2

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

18.0% poverty · this tract

4.5

Supply constraint

$980 rent vs county FMR

2.8

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: 82

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

86%Socioeconomic
80%Household composition
87%Racial/ethnic minority
50%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
83%Grade C
16%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)

326Total filings over 13 yrs
4.88%Avg annual filing rate
7.5%Peak (2003)
24Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings dropped 41% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

121Total filings 2020-21
1.6Avg monthly (observed)
2.0Pre-pandemic baseline
0.79×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.

30.2%Housing insecurity
16.2%Utility-shutoff threat
42.3%Food insecurity
42.0%SNAP enrollment
19.7%Transit barriers
32.2%No health insurance
19.9%Frequent mental distress
40.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Cesar E. Chavez Drive

Adults with no health insurance runs 32.2% against 11.3% nationally. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

The poverty rate is 18%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 326 filings here across 13 tracked years.

It sits 0.7 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. The worst year on record was 2003, when 7.5% 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 4.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 65th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079017300

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079017300?

Census tract 55079017300 in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (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 55079017300?

Median gross rent is $980/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079017300?

18.0% of residents in tract 55079017300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,245.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079017300?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 82th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 86th, household 80th, minority 87th, housing 50th.

Is tract 55079017300 considered part of Cesar E. Chavez Drive?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079017300 fall within Cesar E. Chavez Drive (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079017300?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 326 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079017300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.88% of renter households, peaking at 7.5% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079017300 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× 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 55079017300 struggle to pay rent?

About 30.2% 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. 16.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079017300 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079017300 scores 5.2/10, 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 55079017300 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. 16% 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