Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #37,882 of 84,120 nationally
Greenfield Park Eviction Risk: Moderate , West Allis
Tract 55079100900 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,874 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
With a score of 4.7/10, tract 55079100900 in the Greenfield Park area of West Allis, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 3,874. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 26% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
4.7
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%
Stable renters 41%
Owners 45%
Tract context
Occupied units1,967
Renter share55.5%
SVI overall0.61
Poverty rate19.3%
Median income$59,604
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
94
th percentile
Very High
Within county
51
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across West Allis and the region
Centroid at 43.0092, -88.0518 · click any tract to drill in
Why Greenfield Park scores 4.7
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from West Allis
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
19.3% poverty · this tract
4.8
Supply constraint
$1,083 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from West Allis
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from West Allis
8.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from West Allis
4.6
How Greenfield Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 61
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 34%Socioeconomic
- 66%Household composition
- 50%Racial/ethnic minority
- 86%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
- 9%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)
- 289Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.96%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.3%Peak (2017)
- 40Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 122% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 209Total filings 2020-21
- 2.7Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.69×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran above baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
- 11.1%Housing insecurity
- 6.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.2%Food insecurity
- 14.6%SNAP enrollment
- 7.8%Transit barriers
- 8.7%No health insurance
- 16.5%Frequent mental distress
- 28.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Greenfield Park
The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.3/10.
The filing record is not thin: 289 evictions over 13 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2017, when 3.3% 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 2.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 55th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 6.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.8 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
It tracks the Milwaukee County average of 4.5 closely. Average gross rent is $1,083, close to the West Allis average.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079100900
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079100900?
Census tract 55079100900 in the Greenfield Park neighborhood scores 4.7/10 (Moderate 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 55079100900?
Median gross rent is $1,083/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 26% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079100900?
19.3% of residents in tract 55079100900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,874.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079100900?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 61th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 34th, household 66th, minority 50th, housing 86th.
Q5
Is tract 55079100900 considered part of Greenfield Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079100900 fall within Greenfield Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079100900?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 289 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079100900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.96% of renter households, peaking at 3.3% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079100900 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.69× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079100900 struggle to pay rent?
About 11.1% 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. 6.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079100900 compare to West Allis overall?
Tract 55079100900 scores 4.7/10, higher than the parent city of West Allis at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from West Allis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079100900 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.
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/ 10 · Moderate
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4.1
/ 10 · Moderate
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/ 10 · Low
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3.5
/ 10 · Low
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