Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Harambee Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079004500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,771 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 55079004500 covers part of the Harambee area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. around two-thirds of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, far above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 46%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 33%
Tract context
Occupied units633
Renter share66.5%
SVI overall0.85
Poverty rate30.5%
Median income$36,359
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
80
th percentile
High
Within county
76
th percentile
High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0855, -87.9223 · click any tract to drill in
Why Harambee scores 5.8
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
30.5% poverty · this tract
7.6
Supply constraint
$1,014 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Harambee compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 38%Household composition
- 99%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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
- 2%Grade B
- 98%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)
- 892Total filings over 13 yrs
- 12.95%Avg annual filing rate
- 16.9%Peak (2015)
- 83Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 51% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 263Total filings 2020-21
- 3.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 5.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.58×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Harambee. 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.
- 30.9%Housing insecurity
- 21.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 42.6%Food insecurity
- 52.0%SNAP enrollment
- 20.9%Transit barriers
- 13.4%No health insurance
- 20.5%Frequent mental distress
- 42.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Harambee
SNAP participation runs 52.0% against 15.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $36,359 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.
Housing insecurity runs 30.9% against 14.2% nationally. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Running hot, economic stress reads 7.6/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 892 filings here across 13 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 16.9% of renter households.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079004500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079004500?
Census tract 55079004500 in the Harambee neighborhood scores 5.8/10 (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 55079004500?
Median gross rent is $1,014/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 69% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079004500?
30.5% of residents in tract 55079004500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,771.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079004500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 85th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 38th, minority 99th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 55079004500 considered part of Harambee?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079004500 fall within Harambee (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079004500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 892 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079004500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 12.95% of renter households, peaking at 16.9% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079004500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.58× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079004500 struggle to pay rent?
About 30.9% 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. 21.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079004500 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079004500 scores 5.8/10, 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 55079004500 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.
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