Center Street Marketplace Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee
Tract 55079006400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 1,877 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
With a score of 5.8/10, tract 55079006400 in the Center Street Marketplace area of Milwaukee, WI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0742, -87.9423 · click any tract to drill in
Why Center Street Marketplace scores 5.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Center Street Marketplace compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 91
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 92%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 98%Racial/ethnic minority
- 87%Housing & transportation
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
- 100%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.
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)
- 1,295Total filings over 13 yrs
- 21.13%Avg annual filing rate
- 23.7%Peak (2011)
- 103Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 405Total filings 2020-21
- 5.3Avg monthly (observed)
- 8.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Center Street Marketplace. 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.
- 35.6%Housing insecurity
- 24.9%Utility-shutoff threat
- 48.7%Food insecurity
- 58.5%SNAP enrollment
- 24.3%Transit barriers
- 16.4%No health insurance
- 22.7%Frequent mental distress
- 43.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Center Street Marketplace
The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. SNAP participation runs 58.5% against 15.2% nationally. The poverty rate is 46%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.
This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 24.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.
On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 1,295 eviction filings across 13 observed years.
Average gross rent is $954, 10% below the Milwaukee average. The worst year on record was 2011, when 23.7% of renter households were served.
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 21.1% of renter households face a filing.
That is riskier than roughly 76% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 1.9 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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