Neighborhood · Ranked #48,956 of 84,120 nationally

Highland Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079009500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,111 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 55079009500 sits in the Highland Park area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4/10. The severe-burden share is 32%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 18% Stable renters 18% Owners 64%

Tract context

Occupied units930

Renter share36.2%

SVI overall0.26

Poverty rate11.1%

Median income$67,500

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0530, -87.9754 · click any tract to drill in

Why Highland Park scores 4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local 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

11.1% poverty · this tract

2.8

Supply constraint

$1,153 rent vs county FMR

4.2

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 Highland Park compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 26

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

29%Socioeconomic
44%Household composition
40%Racial/ethnic minority
20%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
30%Grade B
66%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)

145Total filings over 13 yrs
3.39%Avg annual filing rate
4.5%Peak (2004)
9Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings dropped 44% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

42Total filings 2020-21
0.6Avg monthly (observed)
0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
0.66×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

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 Highland Park. 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.

9.2%Housing insecurity
5.5%Utility-shutoff threat
10.5%Food insecurity
11.1%SNAP enrollment
6.3%Transit barriers
6.0%No health insurance
15.0%Frequent mental distress
23.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Highland Park

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.

The filing record is not thin: 145 evictions over 13 years of observation. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 50% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 10.5% against 17.8% nationally.

Filings peaked in 2004 at 4.5% of renter households. At $1,153 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.3/10.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely.

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 55079009500

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079009500?

Census tract 55079009500 in the Highland Park neighborhood scores 4/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 55079009500?

Median gross rent is $1,153/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079009500?

11.1% of residents in tract 55079009500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,111.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079009500?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 26th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 29th, household 44th, minority 40th, housing 20th.

Is tract 55079009500 considered part of Highland Park?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079009500 fall within Highland Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079009500?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 145 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079009500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.39% of renter households, peaking at 4.5% in 2004. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079009500 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.66× 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.

What share of households in tract 55079009500 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.2% 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. 5.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079009500 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079009500 scores 4/10, lower 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 55079009500 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 Milwaukee

Top eight tracts in Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org