Within parent city
25
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #52,479 of 84,120 nationally
Cudahy Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55079180300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,520
Census tract 55079180300 covers part of Cudahy, WI, and scores 3.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 23%. 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 29%
Stable renters 33%
Owners 38%
Tract context
Occupied units1,465
Renter share62.7%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate10.4%
Median income$53,576
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
36
th percentile
Low
Within state
56
th percentile
Elevated
National
38
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cudahy and the region
Centroid at 42.9519, -87.8701 · click any tract to drill in
Why Cudahy scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cudahy
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
10.4% poverty · this tract
2.6
Supply constraint
$1,033 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cudahy
4.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cudahy
7.8
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cudahy
5.2
How Cudahy compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 47%Socioeconomic
- 80%Household composition
- 45%Racial/ethnic minority
- 67%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 11%Grade C
- 11%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)
- 598Total filings over 13 yrs
- 6.81%Avg annual filing rate
- 11.2%Peak (2007)
- 47Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 104% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 174Total filings 2020-21
- 2.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 3.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.64×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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 14.5%Housing insecurity
- 8.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.1%Food insecurity
- 20.7%SNAP enrollment
- 10.0%Transit barriers
- 11.9%No health insurance
- 18.4%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Cudahy
The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 598 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 11.2% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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 6.8% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 38% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. 47% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079180300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079180300?
Census tract 55079180300 in Cudahy 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 55079180300?
Median gross rent is $1,033/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079180300?
10.4% of residents in tract 55079180300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,520.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079180300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 47th, household 80th, minority 45th, housing 67th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079180300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 598 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079180300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 6.81% of renter households, peaking at 11.2% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 55079180300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.64× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 55079180300 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.5% 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. 8.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 55079180300 compare to Cudahy overall?
Tract 55079180300 scores 3.8/10, right in line with the parent city of Cudahy at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cudahy eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 55079180300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 11% 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Cudahy
Top eight tracts in Cudahy ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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