Within neighborhood
20
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Tosa Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079005200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,488 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
55079005200 is a census tract in the Tosa Heights area of Milwaukee, WI. It scores 3.8/10 for landlords. Severe burden reaches 44%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.8
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 69%
Tract context
Occupied units580
Renter share30.9%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate10.3%
Median income$73,750
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 43.0863, -88.0124 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tosa Heights 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
10.3% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,131 rent vs county FMR
4.0
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 Tosa Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 60
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 52%Socioeconomic
- 53%Household composition
- 71%Racial/ethnic minority
- 60%Housing & transportation
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.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 100%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)
- 184Total filings over 13 yrs
- 8.71%Avg annual filing rate
- 19.6%Peak (2007)
- 11Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 57% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 65Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.83×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 Tosa Heights. 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.
- 15.2%Housing insecurity
- 9.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.9%Food insecurity
- 20.5%SNAP enrollment
- 9.9%Transit barriers
- 8.1%No health insurance
- 16.9%Frequent mental distress
- 28.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tosa Heights
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Well under the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 184 filings here across 13 tracked years. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2007, when 19.6% of renter households were served.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 8.7% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 38th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.4/10. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 49% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,131, close to the Milwaukee average.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079005200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079005200?
Census tract 55079005200 in the Tosa Heights 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 55079005200?
Median gross rent is $1,131/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 49% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079005200?
10.3% of residents in tract 55079005200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,488.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079005200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 52th, household 53th, minority 71th, housing 60th.
Q5
Is tract 55079005200 considered part of Tosa Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079005200 fall within Tosa Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079005200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 184 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079005200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 8.71% of renter households, peaking at 19.6% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079005200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.83× 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 55079005200 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.2% 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. 9.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079005200 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079005200 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 55079005200 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.
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