Cesar E. Chavez Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079017500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,972 · neighborhood within 1.2 mi
Tract 55079017500 sits in the Cesar E. Chavez Drive area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5.8/10. It is home to 3,972 residents. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0029, -87.9297 · 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: 99
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 99%Socioeconomic
- 96%Household composition
- 91%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%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
- 30%Grade C
- 70%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)
- 933Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.70%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.8%Peak (2008)
- 79Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 259Total filings 2020-21
- 3.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 6.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.56×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.
- 33.7%Housing insecurity
- 19.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 47.6%Food insecurity
- 49.9%SNAP enrollment
- 22.6%Transit barriers
- 32.7%No health insurance
- 20.8%Frequent mental distress
- 43.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Cesar E. Chavez Drive
Food insecurity runs 47.6% against 17.8% nationally. The poverty rate is 43%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. 73% 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. Set annual rent against average income of $32,262 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2/10.
53% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
At $886 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Court records carry 933 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2008 at 11.8% of renter households.
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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