Harambee Eviction Risk: Moderate , Milwaukee

Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 82% of renters here are cost-burdened. Set annual rent against average income of $27,418 and the ratio lands at 50%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 29.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

What pushes it up most is economic stress at 8.9/10. The poverty rate is 35%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Disability prevalence runs 49.0% against 31.5% nationally.

73% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.3 points above the Milwaukee County average of 4.5.

Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 1,040 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2012, when 18.3% 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 14.5% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 76th 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.