Westlawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Cost burden runs 63% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. Food insecurity runs 50.6% against 17.8% nationally. The dominant input is economic stress at 9.4/10.

Set annual rent against average income of $26,181 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. The poverty rate is 38%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Disability prevalence runs 45.0% against 31.5% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 1,353 eviction filings across 13 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2017, when 29.1% 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 25.2% of renter households face a filing.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.