Within neighborhood
80
th percentile
High
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Lynndale Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079020200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,359 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 55079020200 covers part of the Lynndale area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,359 residents. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 29% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 7%
Stable renters 17%
Owners 76%
Tract context
Occupied units1,146
Renter share23.3%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate23.5%
Median income$63,125
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
65
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
88
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9775, -87.9411 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lynndale scores 5.3
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
23.5% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$1,148 rent vs county FMR
4.1
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 Lynndale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 89%Household composition
- 72%Racial/ethnic minority
- 19%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 37%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.
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)
- 130Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.12%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.4%Peak (2014)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 38% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 30Total filings 2020-21
- 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.40×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 Lynndale. 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.
- 16.4%Housing insecurity
- 8.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.9%Food insecurity
- 20.6%SNAP enrollment
- 10.6%Transit barriers
- 15.9%No health insurance
- 16.7%Frequent mental distress
- 30.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lynndale
Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. The poverty rate is 23%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.
Court records carry 130 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 5.4% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,148, 8% above the Milwaukee average. 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 3.1% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 67% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. At 23% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079020200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079020200?
Census tract 55079020200 in the Lynndale neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (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 55079020200?
Median gross rent is $1,148/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079020200?
23.5% of residents in tract 55079020200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,359.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079020200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 89th, minority 72th, housing 19th.
Q5
Is tract 55079020200 considered part of Lynndale?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079020200 fall within Lynndale (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079020200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 130 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079020200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.12% of renter households, peaking at 5.4% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079020200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.40× 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 55079020200 struggle to pay rent?
About 16.4% 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. 8.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079020200 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079020200 scores 5.3/10, 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 55079020200 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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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