Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #65,414 of 84,120 nationally
Parkway Heights Eviction Risk: Lower , South Milwaukee
Tract 55079170200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,016 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
55079170200 is a census tract in the Parkway Heights area of South Milwaukee, WI. It scores 3.1/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,016. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
3.1
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 16%
Stable renters 22%
Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,604
Renter share37.5%
SVI overall0.46
Poverty rate7.3%
Median income$68,250
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
17
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
23
th percentile
Low
Within state
33
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across South Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 42.9228, -87.8726 · click any tract to drill in
Why Parkway Heights scores 3.1
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
7.3% poverty · this tract
1.8
Supply constraint
$1,015 rent vs county FMR
3.1
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 Parkway Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 46
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 32%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 54%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
- 0%Grade C
- 27%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)
- 332Total filings over 13 yrs
- 3.44%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.9%Peak (2014)
- 20Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 122% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 97Total filings 2020-21
- 1.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.49×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.
- 8.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 11.0%Food insecurity
- 10.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.3%Transit barriers
- 8.2%No health insurance
- 15.5%Frequent mental distress
- 28.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Parkway Heights
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.8/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.4/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 332 filings here across 13 tracked years. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened.
The worst year on record was 2014, when 5.9% 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 3.4% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 22% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.2/10.
Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $68,250, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
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 55079170200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079170200?
Census tract 55079170200 in the Parkway Heights neighborhood scores 3.1/10 (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 55079170200?
Median gross rent is $1,015/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079170200?
7.3% of residents in tract 55079170200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,016.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079170200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 46th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 32th, household 71th, minority 37th, housing 54th.
Q5
Is tract 55079170200 considered part of Parkway Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079170200 fall within Parkway Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079170200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 332 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079170200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.44% of renter households, peaking at 5.9% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079170200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.49× 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 55079170200 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. 4.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079170200 compare to South Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079170200 scores 3.1/10, 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 55079170200 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. 27% 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 South Milwaukee
Top eight tracts in South Milwaukee ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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