Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Fernwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , St. Francis
Tract 55079185100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,892 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 55079185100 covers part of the Fernwood area of St. Francis, WI, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,892. Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 32%
Owners 46%
Tract context
Occupied units2,692
Renter share54.2%
SVI overall0.41
Poverty rate22.2%
Median income$54,146
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
56
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
80
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across St. Francis and the region
Centroid at 42.9788, -87.8685 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fernwood scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from St. Francis
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
22.2% poverty · this tract
5.5
Supply constraint
$1,021 rent vs county FMR
3.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from St. Francis
2.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from St. Francis
2.6
Housing court bias
Inherited from St. Francis
2.8
How Fernwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 41
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 37%Socioeconomic
- 17%Household composition
- 43%Racial/ethnic minority
- 69%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 2%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)
- 338Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.5%Peak (2004)
- 20Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 31% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 122Total filings 2020-21
- 1.6Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.85×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below 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.
- 9.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.1%Food insecurity
- 14.3%SNAP enrollment
- 7.2%Transit barriers
- 8.3%No health insurance
- 15.6%Frequent mental distress
- 30.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fernwood
What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.3/10.
The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Well under the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 2.6/10. 41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
The filing record is not thin: 338 evictions over 13 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2004 at 3.5% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079185100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079185100?
Census tract 55079185100 in the Fernwood neighborhood scores 4.8/10 (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 55079185100?
Median gross rent is $1,021/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079185100?
22.2% of residents in tract 55079185100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,892.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079185100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 37th, household 17th, minority 43th, housing 69th.
Q5
Is tract 55079185100 considered part of Fernwood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079185100 fall within Fernwood (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079185100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 338 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079185100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.33% of renter households, peaking at 3.5% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079185100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.85× 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 55079185100 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.7% 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. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079185100 compare to St. Francis overall?
Tract 55079185100 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of St. Francis at 3.8/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from St. Francis; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079185100 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in St. Francis
Top eight tracts in St. Francis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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