West Allis Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , Greenfield
Tract 55079019500 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,390 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
55079019500 is a census tract in the West Allis Heights area of Milwaukee, WI. It scores 3.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 3,390. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Greenfield and the region
Centroid at 42.9773, -88.0277 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Allis Heights scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Allis Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 20
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 39%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 40%Racial/ethnic minority
- 21%Housing & transportation
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
- 0%Grade C
- 30%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.
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)
- 118Total filings over 13 yrs
- 2.59%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.1%Peak (2016)
- 10Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 41Total filings 2020-21
- 0.5Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.71×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within West Allis Heights. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.2%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 12.7%Food insecurity
- 12.8%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 8.8%No health insurance
- 16.1%Frequent mental distress
- 28.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Allis Heights
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.4/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
It sits 1.4 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Cost burden runs 38% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Court records carry 118 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 5.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 2.6% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 22nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $76,267, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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