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Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally

Meadowmere Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Tract 55079017200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,854 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 55079017200 covers part of the Meadowmere area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 2,854. Food insecurity runs 38.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 21% Owners 60%
Tract context
Occupied units789
Renter share39.2%
SVI overall0.81
Poverty rate25.5%
Median income$51,326

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 4 tracts In Meadowmere
Very High
Within parent city
56 th percentile
Rank, 56th percentileLowHigh
#93 of 210 tracts In Milwaukee
Elevated
Within county
84 th percentile
Rank, 84th percentileLowHigh
#49 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
High
Within state
98 th percentile
Rank, 98th percentileLowHigh
#29 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region

Centroid at 43.0029, -87.9562 · click any tract to drill in

Why Meadowmere scores 5.8

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
25.5% poverty · this tract
6.4
Supply constraint
$1,094 rent vs county FMR
3.7
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 Meadowmere compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Meadowmere risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 5.85.8This tracttract 017200Milwaukee: 4.44.4Milwaukeeparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 81

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

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.

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)

  • 106Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 2.98%Avg annual filing rate
  • 6.0%Peak (2003)
  • 11Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550790172002003: 17 filings (5.99/100 renter HHs)2004: 6 filings (2.11/100 renter HHs)2007: 4 filings (2.33/100 renter HHs)2008: 8 filings (4.65/100 renter HHs)2009: 8 filings (4.65/100 renter HHs)2010: 4 filings (1.44/100 renter HHs)2011: 7 filings (2.13/100 renter HHs)2012: 5 filings (1.52/100 renter HHs)2013: 9 filings (2.74/100 renter HHs)2014: 12 filings (3.65/100 renter HHs)2015: 9 filings (2.74/100 renter HHs)2016: 6 filings (1.69/100 renter HHs)2017: 11 filings (3.10/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 35% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 33Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.65×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-01-01: 1 filings (5.00× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 1 filings (0.83× baseline)2021-04-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 2 filings (5.00× baseline)2021-07-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-09-01: 2 filings (5.00× baseline)2021-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2022-01-01: 1 filings (5.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2022-03-01: 1 filings (0.83× baseline)2022-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-06-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2022-07-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 1 filings (0.83× baseline)2022-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-10-01: 2 filings (2.50× baseline)2022-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-03-01: 1 filings (0.83× baseline)2023-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-06-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2023-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2023-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-01-01: 2 filings (10.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-03-01: 1 filings (0.83× baseline)2024-04-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2024-05-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2024-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-11-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2024-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-05-01: 2 filings (3.33× baseline)2025-06-01: 2 filings (5.00× baseline)2025-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-11-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× 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 Meadowmere. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Meadowmere

Severe burden reaches 26%. 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.

Housing insecurity runs 27.9% against 14.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 26%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 106 filings here across 13 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2003, when 6.0% of renter households were served. 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 3.0% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.3/10. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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 55079017200

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079017200?

Census tract 55079017200 in the Meadowmere 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 55079017200?

Median gross rent is $1,094/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079017200?

25.5% of residents in tract 55079017200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,854.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079017200?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 81th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 77th, minority 93th, housing 43th.
Q5

Is tract 55079017200 considered part of Meadowmere?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079017200 fall within Meadowmere (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079017200?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 106 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079017200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.98% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079017200 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× 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 55079017200 struggle to pay rent?

About 27.9% 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. 14.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079017200 compare to Milwaukee overall?

Tract 55079017200 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 55079017200 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.

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