Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally
Glendale Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55079060101 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,117
Census tract 55079060101 covers part of Glendale, WI, and scores 3.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. 32% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 22%
Stable renters 14%
Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units1,810
Renter share35.8%
SVI overall0.32
Poverty rate12.4%
Median income$85,139
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
30
th percentile
Low
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
National
31
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Glendale and the region
Centroid at 43.1392, -87.9259 · click any tract to drill in
Why Glendale scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Glendale
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
12.4% poverty · this tract
3.1
Supply constraint
$1,498 rent vs county FMR
6.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Glendale
8.8
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Glendale
6.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Glendale
7.2
How Glendale compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 32
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 32%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 36%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
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
- 1%Grade B
- 0%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.
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)
- 109Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.78%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.7%Peak (2017)
- 17Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 42% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 96Total filings 2020-21
- 1.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 2.05×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. 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.
- 8.9%Housing insecurity
- 5.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.9%Food insecurity
- 11.2%SNAP enrollment
- 6.4%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 26.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Glendale
61% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.8/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.6/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Court records carry 109 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2017, when 2.7% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 1.8% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.9/10. Average gross rent is $1,498, close to the Glendale average.
Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $85,139.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079060101
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079060101?
Census tract 55079060101 in Glendale scores 3.5/10 (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 55079060101?
Median gross rent is $1,498/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 61% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079060101?
12.4% of residents in tract 55079060101 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,117.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079060101?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 32th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 31th, minority 55th, housing 36th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079060101?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 109 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079060101 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.78% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 55079060101 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 2.05× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran above pre-pandemic norms. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 55079060101 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.9% 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. 5.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 55079060101 compare to Glendale overall?
Tract 55079060101 scores 3.5/10, lower than the parent city of Glendale at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Glendale; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 55079060101 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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 Glendale
Top eight tracts in Glendale ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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