Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Timmerman West Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079000501 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,888 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 55079000501 covers part of the Timmerman West area of Milwaukee, WI, and scores 3.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,888 residents. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 26%
Stable renters 37%
Owners 37%
Tract context
Occupied units1,382
Renter share63.7%
SVI overall0.77
Poverty rate9.7%
Median income$64,696
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
16
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
35
th percentile
Low
Within state
56
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.1154, -88.0434 · click any tract to drill in
Why Timmerman West scores 3.8
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
9.7% poverty · this tract
2.4
Supply constraint
$1,143 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 Timmerman West compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 83%Socioeconomic
- 64%Household composition
- 80%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%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
- 4%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)
- 1,022Total filings over 13 yrs
- 11.84%Avg annual filing rate
- 18.5%Peak (2014)
- 93Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 94% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 422Total filings 2020-21
- 5.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 7.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.72×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 Timmerman West. 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.
- 18.2%Housing insecurity
- 10.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 22.5%Food insecurity
- 24.0%SNAP enrollment
- 11.6%Transit barriers
- 10.0%No health insurance
- 18.5%Frequent mental distress
- 30.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Timmerman West
The severe-burden share is 19%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.4/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
SNAP participation runs 24.0% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 1,022 filings here across 13 tracked years.
41% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points.
Filings peaked in 2014 at 18.5% 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. In a typical year about 11.8% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
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 55079000501
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079000501?
Census tract 55079000501 in the Timmerman West neighborhood scores 3.8/10 (Lower 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 55079000501?
Median gross rent is $1,143/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 41% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079000501?
9.7% of residents in tract 55079000501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,888.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079000501?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 83th, household 64th, minority 80th, housing 54th.
Q5
Is tract 55079000501 considered part of Timmerman West?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079000501 fall within Timmerman West (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079000501?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 1,022 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079000501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 11.84% of renter households, peaking at 18.5% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079000501 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.72× 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 55079000501 struggle to pay rent?
About 18.2% 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. 10.5% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079000501 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079000501 scores 3.8/10, 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 55079000501 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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