Within parent city
29
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Oak Creek Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55079160203 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 6,753
55079160203 is a census tract in Oak Creek, WI. It scores 3/10 for landlords. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 1/10.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 17%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 55%
Tract context
Occupied units2,886
Renter share45.6%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate1.9%
Median income$89,177
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Oak Creek and the region
Centroid at 42.8940, -87.9164 · click any tract to drill in
Why Oak Creek scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Oak Creek
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
1.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,519 rent vs county FMR
7.1
Rent control risk
Inherited from Oak Creek
3.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.2
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Oak Creek
8.2
Housing court bias
Inherited from Oak Creek
3.2
How Oak Creek compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 20
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 15%Socioeconomic
- 28%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 35%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 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)
- 258Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.38%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2009)
- 5Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 75% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 100Total filings 2020-21
- 1.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.49×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.
- 7.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.3%Food insecurity
- 8.7%SNAP enrollment
- 5.6%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 23.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Oak Creek
Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.2/10. It sits 1.5 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. The voucher gap is 20.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Food insecurity runs 9.3% against 17.8% nationally. The filing record is not thin: 258 evictions over 13 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2009 at 2.3% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 1.4% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 2.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079160203
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079160203?
Census tract 55079160203 in Oak Creek scores 3/10 (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 55079160203?
Median gross rent is $1,519/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 38% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079160203?
1.9% of residents in tract 55079160203 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,753.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079160203?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 15th, household 28th, minority 38th, housing 35th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079160203?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 258 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079160203 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.38% of renter households, peaking at 2.3% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 55079160203 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.49× 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 55079160203 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.9% 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. 4.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 55079160203 compare to Oak Creek overall?
Tract 55079160203 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Oak Creek at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Oak Creek eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q9
Was tract 55079160203 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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 Oak Creek
Top eight tracts in Oak Creek ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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