Valley Forge Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079091400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,394 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
55079091400 is a census tract in the Valley Forge area of Wauwatosa, WI. It scores 3/10 for landlords. 29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0403, -87.9938 · click any tract to drill in
Why Valley Forge scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Valley Forge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 8%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 5%Housing & transportation
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
- 48%Grade B
- 42%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)
- 55Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2003)
- 2Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 10Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.49×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 Valley Forge. 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.
- 6.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 7.4%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Valley Forge
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.7/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10.
15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 filings here across 13 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2003, when 4.3% of renter households were served. 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing.
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.
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