Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #20,506 of 84,120 nationally
Pabst Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079005900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,586 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 55079005900 covers part of the Pabst Park area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,586. The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10.
Risk score
5.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 18%
Stable renters 21%
Owners 61%
Tract context
Occupied units1,565
Renter share38.3%
SVI overall0.72
Poverty rate40.4%
Median income$34,152
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
91
th percentile
Very High
Within county
100
th percentile
Very High
Within state
98
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0682, -87.9852 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pabst Park 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
40.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$1,047 rent vs county FMR
3.3
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 Pabst Park 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.
- 84%Socioeconomic
- 69%Household composition
- 83%Racial/ethnic minority
- 30%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.
- 2%Grade A
- 98%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)
- 1,078Total filings over 13 yrs
- 11.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 13.5%Peak (2016)
- 89Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 25% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 445Total filings 2020-21
- 5.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.81×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Pabst 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.
- 26.1%Housing insecurity
- 18.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.4%Food insecurity
- 43.2%SNAP enrollment
- 17.6%Transit barriers
- 12.1%No health insurance
- 20.5%Frequent mental distress
- 36.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pabst Park
The poverty rate is 40%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. The severe-burden share is 27%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $34,152, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Food insecurity runs 35.4% against 17.8% nationally.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.1% against 14.2% nationally. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.3 points.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 1,078 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 13.5% of renter households. 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079005900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079005900?
Census tract 55079005900 in the Pabst Park 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 55079005900?
Median gross rent is $1,047/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 46% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079005900?
40.4% of residents in tract 55079005900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,586.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079005900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 72th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 84th, household 69th, minority 83th, housing 30th.
Q5
Is tract 55079005900 considered part of Pabst Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079005900 fall within Pabst Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079005900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,078 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079005900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.66% of renter households, peaking at 13.5% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079005900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.81× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079005900 struggle to pay rent?
About 26.1% 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. 18.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079005900 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079005900 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 55079005900 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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