Parkview Highlands Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079018900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,484 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 55079018900 covers part of the Parkview Highlands area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs roughly one in three here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9957, -87.9532 · click any tract to drill in
Why Parkview Highlands scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Parkview Highlands compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 79%Socioeconomic
- 87%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade B
- 92%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)
- 83Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.9%Peak (2011)
- 4Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 23Total filings 2020-21
- 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.4Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.68×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Parkview Highlands. 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.
- 24.9%Housing insecurity
- 13.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.9%Food insecurity
- 34.6%SNAP enrollment
- 16.0%Transit barriers
- 24.1%No health insurance
- 19.1%Frequent mental distress
- 36.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Parkview Highlands
SNAP participation runs 34.6% against 15.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $42,464, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
Adults with no health insurance runs 24.1% against 11.3% nationally. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.
The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Court records carry 83 eviction filings across 13 observed years. It sits 0.7 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. At $1,156 a month, rents run 9% over what the rest of Milwaukee commands.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 4.9% 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.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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