Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Commission Row Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079187400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,501 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Tract 55079187400 sits in the Commission Row area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. The dominant input is supply constraint at 10/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 48%
Owners 30%
Tract context
Occupied units2,348
Renter share70.0%
SVI overall0.03
Poverty rate4.9%
Median income$133,300
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
15
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0320, -87.9081 · click any tract to drill in
Why Commission Row scores 3
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
4.9% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,941 rent vs county FMR
10.0
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 Commission Row compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 3
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 0%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 58%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
- 0%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)
- 152Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.03%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.7%Peak (2008)
- 3Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 56Total filings 2020-21
- 0.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.97×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 Commission Row. 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.
- 5.6%Housing insecurity
- 3.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.6%Food insecurity
- 4.8%SNAP enrollment
- 4.3%Transit barriers
- 4.3%No health insurance
- 14.6%Frequent mental distress
- 16.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Commission Row
Average gross rent is $1,941, 83% above the Milwaukee average. The voucher gap is 54.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
31% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10. This is renter territory: 70% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. The filing record is not thin: 152 evictions over 13 years of observation.
The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
The worst year on record was 2008, when 4.7% of renter households were served.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079187400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079187400?
Census tract 55079187400 in the Commission Row neighborhood scores 3/10 (Lower 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 55079187400?
Median gross rent is $1,941/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 31% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079187400?
4.9% of residents in tract 55079187400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,501.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079187400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 3th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 7th, household 0th, minority 22th, housing 58th.
Q5
Is tract 55079187400 considered part of Commission Row?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079187400 fall within Commission Row (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079187400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 152 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079187400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.03% of renter households, peaking at 4.7% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079187400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.97× 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 55079187400 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.6% 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. 3.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079187400 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079187400 scores 3/10, lower 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 55079187400 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. 0% 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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