Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Valley Forge Eviction Risk: Lower , Milwaukee
Tract 55079091400 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 2,394 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
55079091400 is a census tract in the Valley Forge area of Wauwatosa, WI. It scores 3/10 for landlords. 29% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly below the Milwaukee County average of 45.8%.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 29%
Owners 59%
Tract context
Occupied units1,023
Renter share41.0%
SVI overall0.05
Poverty rate6.8%
Median income$115,134
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
33
th percentile
Low
Within county
7
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Milwaukee and the region
Centroid at 43.0403, -87.9938 · click any tract to drill in
Why Valley Forge scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Milwaukee
7.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.0
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
6.8% poverty · this tract
1.7
Supply constraint
$1,498 rent vs county FMR
6.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Milwaukee
5.3
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.3
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Milwaukee
8.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Milwaukee
4.4
How Valley Forge compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 5
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 8%Socioeconomic
- 19%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 5%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 48%Grade B
- 42%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)
- 55Total filings over 13 yrs
- 1.33%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2003)
- 2Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 85% over the past 13 months.
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 10Total filings 2020-21
- 0.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 0.3Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.49×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 Valley Forge. 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.
- 6.8%Housing insecurity
- 4.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 7.5%Food insecurity
- 7.4%SNAP enrollment
- 4.9%Transit barriers
- 5.1%No health insurance
- 14.5%Frequent mental distress
- 21.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Valley Forge
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.7/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10.
Against the Milwaukee County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.5 points. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.1/10.
15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The voucher gap is 19.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.
Food insecurity runs 7.5% against 17.8% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 55 filings here across 13 tracked years. Housing insecurity runs 6.8% against 14.2% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2003, when 4.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 1.3% of renter households face a filing.
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 55079091400
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079091400?
Census tract 55079091400 in the Valley Forge 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 55079091400?
Median gross rent is $1,498/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 29% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55079091400?
6.8% of residents in tract 55079091400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,394.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55079091400?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 5th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 8th, household 19th, minority 38th, housing 5th.
Q5
Is tract 55079091400 considered part of Valley Forge?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079091400 fall within Valley Forge (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079091400?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 55 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079091400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.33% of renter households, peaking at 4.3% in 2003. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 55079091400 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.49× 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 55079091400 struggle to pay rent?
About 6.8% 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 55079091400 compare to Milwaukee overall?
Tract 55079091400 scores 3/10, lower than the parent city of Milwaukee at 4.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Milwaukee eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 55079091400 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.
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