Westlawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 62% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The poverty rate is 43%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Set annual rent against average income of $41,106 and the ratio lands at 42%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Average gross rent is $1,438, 36% above the Milwaukee average.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 28.1% against 14.2% nationally.

It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.5% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 704 evictions over 13 years of observation.

The voucher gap is 14.4%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Filings peaked in 2017 at 12.2% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Milwaukee Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 10.9% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.