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.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.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-friendlyHow Deer District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.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
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
About tract 55079186300
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079186300?
What is the average rent in tract 55079186300?
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079186300?
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079186300?
Is tract 55079186300 considered part of Deer District?
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079186300?
Did eviction filings in tract 55079186300 drop during COVID?
What share of households in tract 55079186300 struggle to pay rent?
How does tract 55079186300 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Was tract 55079186300 historically redlined?
Highest-risk tracts in Milwaukee
Top eight tracts in Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.