Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is economic stress at 8.9/10.

The poverty rate is 36%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Cost burden runs 58% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. This is renter territory: 68% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 23.4% 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.

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 748 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2017, when 12.8% 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. In a typical year about 9.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 76th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

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