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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.Inglewood: 3.03.0InglewoodNeighborhoodParent city: 4.04.0Parent cityhost cityState: 3.93.9Stateavg in stateU.S.: 5.15.1U.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
0246810
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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