Town of Lake Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079021200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,959 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Tract 55079021200 sits in the Town of Lake area of Milwaukee eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 4.7/10. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.8/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9653, -87.9210 · click any tract to drill in
Why Town of Lake scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Town of Lake compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 72
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 68%Socioeconomic
- 56%Household composition
- 52%Racial/ethnic minority
- 76%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
- 3%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)
- 250Total filings over 13 yrs
- 6.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.1%Peak (2008)
- 12Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 60Total filings 2020-21
- 0.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.0Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.76×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Town of Lake. 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.
- 13.5%Housing insecurity
- 7.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.2%Food insecurity
- 19.1%SNAP enrollment
- 9.3%Transit barriers
- 11.8%No health insurance
- 17.5%Frequent mental distress
- 33.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Town of Lake
19% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Average gross rent is $855, 19% below the Milwaukee average.
Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 250 filings here across 13 tracked years.
Filings peaked in 2008 at 12.1% of renter households. 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 6.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for about half of renters.
It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $45,625.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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