Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Deer District Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079186300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,230 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 55079186300 covers part of the Deer District area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Average gross rent is $1,566, 48% above the Milwaukee average.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 38%
Stable renters 51%
Owners 11%
Tract context
Occupied units1,670
Renter share88.3%
SVI overall0.59
Poverty rate26.4%
Median income$75,658
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
48
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
64
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
88
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0408, -87.9174 · click any tract to drill in
Why Deer District scores 5.3
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
26.4% poverty · this tract
6.6
Supply constraint
$1,566 rent vs county FMR
7.5
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 Deer District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 59
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 69%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 63%Racial/ethnic minority
- 96%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)
- 468Total filings over 13 yrs
- 5.79%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.5%Peak (2009)
- 47Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 292% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 344Total filings 2020-21
- 4.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.35×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 15.2%Housing insecurity
- 8.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.7%Food insecurity
- 20.2%SNAP enrollment
- 11.5%Transit barriers
- 10.9%No health insurance
- 19.7%Frequent mental distress
- 27.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Deer District
This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
The voucher gap is 24.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 17% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Court records carry 468 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.
The worst year on record was 2009, when 12.5% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 5.8% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #28,095 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079186300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079186300?
Census tract 55079186300 in the Deer District neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 55079186300?
Median gross rent is $1,566/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 43% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079186300?
26.4% of residents in tract 55079186300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,230.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079186300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 59th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 69th, household 1th, minority 63th, housing 96th.
Q5
Is tract 55079186300 considered part of Deer District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079186300 fall within Deer District (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079186300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 468 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079186300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.79% of renter households, peaking at 12.5% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079186300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.35× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079186300 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.2% 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. 8.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079186300 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079186300 scores 5.3/10, 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 55079186300 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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