Neighborhood · Ranked #59,654 of 84,120 nationally

Lincoln Heights Terrace Eviction Risk: Lower , West Allis

Tract 55079101700 · Milwaukee County, WI · pop 3,379 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Tract 55079101700 sits in the Lincoln Heights Terrace area of West Allis eviction risk, WI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.4/10. Population here is 3,379. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

3.4

Lower

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 16% Stable renters 30% Owners 54%

Tract context

Occupied units1,515

Renter share46.2%

SVI overall0.20

Poverty rate10.9%

Median income$74,046

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across West Allis and the region

Centroid at 43.0017, -88.0070 · click any tract to drill in

Why Lincoln Heights Terrace scores 3.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from West Allis

7.3

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.0

State political climate

Wisconsin legislature & governorship

2.9

Economic stress

10.9% poverty · this tract

2.7

Supply constraint

$1,002 rent vs county FMR

3.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from West Allis

3.9

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

3.2

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from West Allis

8.7

Housing court bias

Inherited from West Allis

4.6

How Lincoln Heights Terrace 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.

33%Socioeconomic
17%Household composition
50%Racial/ethnic minority
17%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.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
100%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)

207Total filings over 13 yrs
2.69%Avg annual filing rate
4.4%Peak (2016)
14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)

Filings by year 2003 to 2017

Filings stayed roughly flat over the past 13 months.

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

74Total filings 2020-21
1.0Avg monthly (observed)
1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
0.56×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

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 Lincoln Heights Terrace. 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.

12.0%Housing insecurity
6.8%Utility-shutoff threat
15.2%Food insecurity
16.1%SNAP enrollment
8.3%Transit barriers
10.0%No health insurance
16.9%Frequent mental distress
28.6%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Lincoln Heights Terrace

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 8.7/10. Cost burden runs around a third here against 45.8% across Milwaukee County.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8.1/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Milwaukee County average of 4.5. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.3/10.

Court records carry 207 eviction filings across 13 observed years. The worst year on record was 2016, when 4.4% of renter households were served.

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 2.7% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 29% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2.8/10.

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 55079101700

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55079101700?

Census tract 55079101700 in the Lincoln Heights Terrace neighborhood scores 3.4/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 55079101700?

Median gross rent is $1,002/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 36% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 55079101700?

10.9% of residents in tract 55079101700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,379.

How socially vulnerable is tract 55079101700?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 20th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 17th, minority 50th, housing 17th.

Is tract 55079101700 considered part of Lincoln Heights Terrace?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55079101700 fall within Lincoln Heights Terrace (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55079101700?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 207 eviction filings across 13 validated years in tract 55079101700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.69% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 55079101700 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.56× 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.

What share of households in tract 55079101700 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.0% 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. 6.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 55079101700 compare to West Allis overall?

Tract 55079101700 scores 3.4/10, lower than the parent city of West Allis at 4.1/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from West Allis eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Q10

Was tract 55079101700 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 West Allis

Top eight tracts in West Allis ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org