Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally
Historic Grant Park Eviction Risk: Lower , South Milwaukee
Tract 55079170100 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,361 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Census tract 55079170100 covers part of the Historic Grant Park area of South Milwaukee, WI, and scores 3.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. Cost burden runs 23% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 8%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 66%
Tract context
Occupied units1,153
Renter share33.4%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate12.1%
Median income$74,306
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Within county
31
th percentile
Low
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across South Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9156, -87.8466 · click any tract to drill in
Why Historic Grant Park scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from South Milwaukee
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
12.1% poverty · this tract
3.0
Supply constraint
$1,268 rent vs county FMR
5.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from South Milwaukee
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.4
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from South Milwaukee
7.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from South Milwaukee
5.7
How Historic Grant Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 7
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 16%Socioeconomic
- 20%Household composition
- 22%Racial/ethnic minority
- 7%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
- 17%Grade B
- 17%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)
- 139Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2011)
- 8Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 27% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 28Total filings 2020-21
- 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.56×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.
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.
- 8.6%Housing insecurity
- 4.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 10.7%Food insecurity
- 11.1%SNAP enrollment
- 6.1%Transit barriers
- 7.2%No health insurance
- 15.2%Frequent mental distress
- 27.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Historic Grant Park
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 8.1/10. Average gross rent is $1,268, 25% above the South Milwaukee average. The severe-burden share is 15%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.3/10. Court records carry 139 eviction filings across 13 observed years. Food insecurity runs 10.7% against 17.8% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2011, when 7.1% 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 3.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 31st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079170100
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079170100?
Census tract 55079170100 in the Historic Grant Park neighborhood 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 55079170100?
Median gross rent is $1,268/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 23% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079170100?
12.1% of residents in tract 55079170100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,361.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079170100?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 16th, household 20th, minority 22th, housing 7th.
Q5
Is tract 55079170100 considered part of Historic Grant Park?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079170100 fall within Historic Grant Park (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079170100?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 139 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079170100 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.16% of renter households, peaking at 7.1% in 2011. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079170100 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.56× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079170100 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.6% 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. 4.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079170100 compare to South Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079170100 scores 3.5/10, lower than the parent city of South Milwaukee at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from South Milwaukee eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079170100 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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