Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Tosa Village Eviction Risk: Lower , Wauwatosa
Tract 55079091300 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,631 · neighborhood within 0.9 mi
Tract 55079091300 sits in the Tosa Village area of Wauwatosa eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3/10. It is home to 3,631 residents. The severe-burden share is 49%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 10%
Stable renters 9%
Owners 81%
Tract context
Occupied units1,502
Renter share19.0%
SVI overall0.20
Poverty rate5.2%
Median income$115,393
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
75
th percentile
High
Within county
7
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Wauwatosa and the region
Centroid at 43.0379, -88.0098 · click any tract to drill in
Why Tosa Village scores 3
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
5.2% poverty · this tract
1.3
Supply constraint
$1,094 rent vs county FMR
3.7
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: 20
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 10%Socioeconomic
- 31%Household composition
- 17%Racial/ethnic minority
- 51%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 24%Grade A
- 37%Grade B
- 16%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.
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)
- 27Total filings over 12 yrs
- 0.56%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2015)
- 1Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 67% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 9Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.2Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.58×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.
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.
- 5.4%Housing insecurity
- 3.1%Utility-shutoff threat
- 5.9%Food insecurity
- 5.6%SNAP enrollment
- 4.0%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 13.1%Frequent mental distress
- 20.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Tosa Village
The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.3/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Cost burden runs 54% here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County. Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Average gross rent is $1,094, 24% below the Wauwatosa average.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10. Housing insecurity runs 5.4% against 14.2% nationally.
Court records carry 27 eviction filings across 12 observed years. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.1% of renter households were served.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Milwaukee Co. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 55079091300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079091300?
Census tract 55079091300 in the Tosa Village neighborhood scores 3/10 (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 55079091300?
Median gross rent is $1,094/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 54% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079091300?
5.2% of residents in tract 55079091300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,631.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079091300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 10th, household 31th, minority 17th, housing 51th.
Q5
Is tract 55079091300 considered part of Tosa Village?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079091300 fall within Tosa Village (neighborhood centroid within 0.9 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079091300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 27 eviction filings across 12 validated years in tract 55079091300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.56% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079091300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.58× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 55079091300 struggle to pay rent?
About 5.4% 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. 3.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 55079091300 compare to Wauwatosa overall?
Tract 55079091300 scores 3/10, 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 55079091300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Wauwatosa
Top eight tracts in Wauwatosa ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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Tosa Village
3.5
/ 10 · Low
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Milwaukee County Research Park
3.3
/ 10 · Low
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Inglewood
3
/ 10 · Low
Tract · WI
Inglewood
3
/ 10 · Low
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Valley Forge
3
/ 10 · Low
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Park Ridge
3
/ 10 · Low
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Park Ridge
3
/ 10 · Low
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3
/ 10 · Low
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