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Neighborhood · Wauwatosa, WI

Inglewood Eviction Risk: Lower

5 census tracts · pop 16,577 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 3/10 · range 3–3.1

Inglewood is a 5-tract neighborhood of Wauwatosa, WI, population 16,577. The Eviction Risk Score is 3/10, in the Lower tier. roughly one in four of renters spend 30% or more of household income on rent.

The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.1/10. At $1,121 a month, rents sit 22% under what the rest of Wauwatosa commands. Sitting well above the midpoint is tenant-organizing strength at 7.4/10.

Court records carry 877 eviction filings across its 5 observed tracts. Food insecurity affects 8.2% of adults, 9.6 points below the national rate.

8% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. The worst year on record was 2017, when filings touched 8.3% of renter households.

5.0% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. Among the 6 mapped neighborhoods of Wauwatosa, it ranks #5 by risk, the lower third. Judgments average 1.6% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Park Ridge and Fisher Parkway.

With little internal variation, 3/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.

Risk score
3
Lower
5 tracts · population-weighted
Inglewood vs Wauwatosa How this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
% of income on rent
24.6% -8%
Wauwatosa: 26.8%
Average gross rent
$1,121 -22%
Wauwatosa: $1,438
Average HH income
$107,494 +15%
Wauwatosa: $93,859
Poverty rate
3.6% -39%
Wauwatosa: 5.9%
Renter share
29.7% -24%
Wauwatosa: 39.2%
Peer neighborhoods

Neighborhoods with similar eviction risk

Same county, closest by Eviction Risk Score.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Inglewood and the region

Click any tract to drill in · 5 tracts span score 3–3.1

Why Inglewood scores 3

9 axes · pop-weighted · 1 = landlord-friendly
State political climate
legislature & governorship · Range 2.9–2.9 across tracts
2.9
Regional political climate
County-level mix · 2024 presidential margin · Range 7.0–7.0 across tracts
7.0
Local political climate
Parent city governance · Range 7.3–7.5 across tracts
7.4
Rent control risk
25% of income on rent · Range 2.5–5.3 across tracts
4.3
Eviction process difficulty
State notice requirements & court backlog · Range 2.3–5.5 across tracts
3.4
Tenant organizing strength
30% renter households · Range 6.0–8.1 across tracts
7.4
Housing court bias
County bench composition · Range 4.4–5.5 across tracts
4.8
Economic stress
3.6% below poverty line · Range 1.0–2.1 across tracts
1.1
Supply constraint
Rent-to-FMR gap & zoning friction · Range 2.3–5.6 across tracts
3.9
Risk score comparison

Inglewood vs. parent city, state, U.S.

Eviction Risk Score (0–10 scale).

Inglewood score vs. parent city, state, U.S.3.0InglewoodNeighborhood4.0Parent cityhost city3.9Stateavg in state5.1U.S.national avgU.S. avg = 5.0
Variance across tracts

How uniformly does eviction risk play out in Inglewood?

Left: distribution of constituent tract scores. Right: every tract as a heat square. Click any square to drill in.

Score distribution
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Spread of 0.1 points from 3 to 3.1. Tracts are relatively uniform, so conditions feel similar throughout the neighborhood.
Tracts as heat grid
Each square = one census tract. Color tracks the same green→red ramp as the chloropleth map above.
Census tracts

5 tracts in Inglewood

Ranked highest-risk first. Click for per-tract detail.

Tract↕ Score↕ Pop↕ % over 30% on rent↕ Average rent↕
55079005700 3.1 2,164 28% $1,057
55079091000 3 4,727 31% $1,123
55079091100 3 4,013 17% $1,328
55079005800 3 3,524 12% $1,044
55079090800 3 2,149 40% $922
Social Vulnerability Index

CDC SVI percentile: 14

Pop-weighted across 5 tracts. Higher = more vulnerable to disaster, displacement, and rent shocks. Source: CDC/ATSDR SVI 2022.

Socioeconomic status 16%ile
Poverty, unemployment, no-HS-diploma, housing cost burden
Household characteristics 20%ile
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority 36%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport 18%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab

Court-record eviction history in Inglewood

Aggregated across 5 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.

Historic baseline (2000–2018)

  • 877Total filings (sum)
  • 2.80%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.3%Peak year (2017)
  • 3.91%Latest filed (2017)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 374Total filings 2020-21
  • 1.0Avg monthly observed
  • 1.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.76×Ratio to baseline

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Tracked under Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee, WI).

CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted

Eviction-adjacent indicators in Inglewood

Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.

Frequently asked

About Inglewood

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for Inglewood?

Inglewood scores 3/10 (Lower tier) across 5 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2

How does Inglewood compare to Wauwatosa overall?

Inglewood scores 1.0 points lower than Wauwatosa overall (4/10). Renters spend 25% of income on rent vs 27% citywide. Average rent: $1,121 vs $1,438.
Q3

What is the average rent in Inglewood?

Average gross rent in Inglewood is $1,121/month (pop-weighted across 5 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 25% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4

What percentage of Inglewood residents are renters?

30% of Inglewood households are renter-occupied (vs 39% in Wauwatosa). The neighborhood has 16,577 residents.
Q5

Is Inglewood a high social-vulnerability area?

Inglewood sits in the 14th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (low vulnerability). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6

Which tracts in Inglewood have the highest eviction risk?

The highest-risk constituent tract in Inglewood is census tract 55079005700 (score 3.1/10). Across the 5 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 3 to 3.1, a spread of 0.1 points.
Q7

How safe is Inglewood for landlords?

Inglewood carries a lower-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (3/10). Pop-weighted across 5 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Wauwatosa as a whole (4/10), this neighborhood is lower-risk.
Q8

What is the demographic breakdown of Inglewood?

Inglewood has 16,445 residents. Top groups: White (non-Hispanic) (75.2%), Black (non-Hispanic) (11.8%), Hispanic / Latino (5.9%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
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