Highland Park Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079009400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,538 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
Tract 55079009400 sits in the Highland Park area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 2,538 residents. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 26% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0533, -87.9831 · click any tract to drill in
Why Highland Park scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Highland Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 1
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 5%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 2%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 2%Grade A
- 76%Grade B
- 22%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)
- 80Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.24%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.6%Peak (2003)
- 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 38Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.76×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Highland Park. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.7%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.2%Food insecurity
- 7.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 5.7%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 20.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Highland Park
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.1/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.5 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.
At $1,269 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Food insecurity runs 8.2% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 80 filings here across 13 tracked years.
SNAP participation runs 7.8% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2003, when 2.6% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 1.2% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 20% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 1.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $105,411, annual rent is just 14%.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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