Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #57,812 of 84,120 nationally
Tosa Village Eviction Risk: Lower , Wauwatosa
Tract 55079091200 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 5,574 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
55079091200 is a census tract in the Tosa Village area of Wauwatosa, WI. It scores 3.5/10 for landlords. Population here is 5,574. Against Milwaukee County at 45.8%, 34% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
3.5
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 25%
Stable renters 47%
Owners 28%
Tract context
Occupied units2,854
Renter share71.7%
SVI overall0.42
Poverty rate11.7%
Median income$68,084
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
31
th percentile
Low
Within state
47
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wauwatosa and the region
Centroid at 43.0467, -88.0039 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tosa Village scores 3.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Wauwatosa
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
11.7% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$1,595 rent vs county FMR
7.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Wauwatosa
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Wauwatosa
8.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Wauwatosa
4.4
How Tosa Village compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 18%Socioeconomic
- 45%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%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.
- 3%Grade A
- 1%Grade B
- 58%Grade C
- 3%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)
- 188Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.07%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.4%Peak (2017)
- 22Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 69% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 143Total filings 2020-21
- 1.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.75×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
Within Tosa Village. 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.
- 7.4%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.5%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.6%Transit barriers
- 5.7%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 23.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tosa Village
72% 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. The dominant input is court filing pressure at 8.1/10. The voucher gap is 26.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10. The severe-burden share is 18%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.3/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points. Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 188 evictions over 13 years of observation. Average gross rent is $1,595, 11% above the Wauwatosa average.
Filings peaked in 2017 at 1.4% 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.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079091200
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079091200?
Census tract 55079091200 in the Tosa Village neighborhood scores 3.5/10 (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 55079091200?
Median gross rent is $1,595/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 34% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079091200?
11.7% of residents in tract 55079091200 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,574.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079091200?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 42th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 18th, household 45th, minority 38th, housing 79th.
Q5
Is tract 55079091200 considered part of Tosa Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079091200 fall within Tosa Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079091200?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 188 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079091200 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.07% of renter households, peaking at 1.4% in 2017. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079091200 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.75× 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.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079091200 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.4% 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. 4.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079091200 compare to Wauwatosa overall?
Tract 55079091200 scores 3.5/10, lower than the parent city of Wauwatosa at 4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Wauwatosa eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079091200 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. 3% 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.
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