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Underwood Parkway Eviction Risk: Lower , Wauwatosa

Tract 55079090600 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 4,331 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

With a score of 3/10, tract 55079090600 in the Underwood Parkway area of Wauwatosa, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,331. The dominant input is supply constraint at 9.9/10.

Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 21% Stable renters 15% Owners 64%
Tract context
Occupied units2,043
Renter share36.7%
SVI overall0.29
Poverty rate7.5%
Median income$82,522

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Underwood Parkway
Very Low
Within parent city
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#7 of 13 tracts In Wauwatosa
Moderate
Within county
3 th percentile
Rank, 3rd percentileLowHigh
#292 of 301 tracts In Milwaukee County
Very Low
Within state
29 th percentile
Rank, 29th percentileLowHigh
#1,083 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
Low
Geographic context

Risk heat across Wauwatosa and the region

Centroid at 43.0370, -88.0546 · click any tract to drill in

Why Underwood Parkway scores 3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
7.5% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,871 rent vs county FMR
9.9
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 Underwood Parkway compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Underwood Parkway risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 3.03.0This tracttract 090600Wauwatosa: 4.04.0Wauwatosaparent cityCounty: 4.54.5Countyavg tract in countyState: 3.93.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 29

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

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.

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)

  • 102Total filings over 13 yrs
  • 1.07%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.7%Peak (2009)
  • 6Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2003 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 550790906002003: 8 filings (1.05/100 renter HHs)2004: 10 filings (1.31/100 renter HHs)2007: 8 filings (1.19/100 renter HHs)2008: 10 filings (1.49/100 renter HHs)2009: 18 filings (2.68/100 renter HHs)2010: 7 filings (0.80/100 renter HHs)2011: 3 filings (0.39/100 renter HHs)2012: 5 filings (0.65/100 renter HHs)2013: 9 filings (1.17/100 renter HHs)2014: 6 filings (0.78/100 renter HHs)2015: 5 filings (0.65/100 renter HHs)2016: 7 filings (0.93/100 renter HHs)2017: 6 filings (0.80/100 renter HHs)
Filings dropped 25% over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 29Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.4Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.78×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-10-01: 1 filings (1.25× baseline)2021-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-03-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2022-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-06-01: 2 filings (2.00× baseline)2022-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 1 filings (5.00× baseline)2022-09-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2022-10-01: 1 filings (1.25× baseline)2022-11-01: 1 filings (5.00× baseline)2022-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-01-01: 1 filings (1.67× baseline)2023-02-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2023-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-07-01: 1 filings (1.25× baseline)2023-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-09-01: 2 filings (3.33× baseline)2023-10-01: 1 filings (1.25× baseline)2023-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2024-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-04-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2024-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-06-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2024-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-12-01: 1 filings (5.00× baseline)2025-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 1 filings (2.50× baseline)2025-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-08-01: 3 filings (15.00× baseline)2025-09-01: 4 filings (6.67× baseline)2025-10-01: 1 filings (1.25× baseline)2025-11-01: 1 filings (5.00× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Milwaukee, WI as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Underwood Parkway. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Underwood Parkway

The voucher gap is 48.9%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.

At $1,871 a month, rents run 30% over what the rest of Wauwatosa commands. 21% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.9/10.

It sits 1.5 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 102 filings here across 13 tracked years.

Housing insecurity runs 6.9% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2009 at 2.7% 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. In a typical year about 1.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 55079090600

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079090600?

Census tract 55079090600 in the Underwood Parkway 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 55079090600?

Median gross rent is $1,871/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079090600?

7.5% of residents in tract 55079090600 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,331.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079090600?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 29th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 19th, household 28th, minority 39th, housing 55th.
Q5

Is tract 55079090600 considered part of Underwood Parkway?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079090600 fall within Underwood Parkway (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079090600?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 102 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079090600 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.07% of renter households, peaking at 2.7% in 2009. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 55079090600 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.78× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Milwaukee eviction risk, WI), 2020-2021.
Q8

What share of households in tract 55079090600 struggle to pay rent?

About 6.9% 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. 4.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 55079090600 compare to Wauwatosa overall?

Tract 55079090600 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 55079090600 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. 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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