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Neighborhood · Ranked #31,049 of 84,120 nationally

River Drive Eviction Risk: Moderate , Appleton

Tract 55087010800 · Outagamie County, WI · pop 1,508 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Census tract 55087010800 covers part of the River Drive area of Appleton, WI, and scores 5.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 1,508. Severe burden reaches 60%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score
5.1
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14% Stable renters 3% Owners 83%
Tract context
Occupied units757
Renter share16.8%
SVI overall0.60
Poverty rate18.8%
Median income$65,680

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50 th percentile
Rank, 50th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 1 tracts In River Drive
Moderate
Within parent city
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 27 tracts In Appleton
Very High
Within county
96 th percentile
Rank, 96th percentileLowHigh
#3 of 47 tracts In Outagamie County
Very High
Within state
86 th percentile
Rank, 86th percentileLowHigh
#218 of 1,528 tracts In Wisconsin
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Appleton and the region

Centroid at 44.2505, -88.4094 · click any tract to drill in

Why River Drive scores 5.1

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Appleton
5.1
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.5
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
18.8% poverty · this tract
4.7
Supply constraint
$1,158 rent vs county FMR
5.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Appleton
3.9
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
3.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Appleton
7.1
Housing court bias
Inherited from Appleton
4.2

How River Drive compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
River Drive risk score vs. parent city / county / state5.1This tracttract 0108003.7Appletonparent city3.9Countyavg tract in county3.9Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 60

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

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)

  • 15Total filings over 8 yrs
  • 1.33%Avg annual filing rate
  • 2.6%Peak (2007)
  • 1Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings by year 2007 to 2017
Year-by-year eviction filings in tract 55087010800
Filings dropped 75% over the past 8 months.
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 River Drive

Cost burden runs 83% here against 33.5% across Outagamie County. Pulling hardest the other way is court filing pressure at 0.9/10.

Against the Outagamie County average of 3.9, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.2 points. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.9/10. The poverty rate is 19%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 15 filings here across 8 tracked years. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.1/10.

At $1,158 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Appleton commands. Filings peaked in 2007 at 2.6% of renter households.

In a typical year about 1.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 17% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. Social vulnerability reads 6.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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 55087010800

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55087010800?

Census tract 55087010800 in the River Drive neighborhood scores 5.1/10 (Moderate 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 55087010800?

Median gross rent is $1,158/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 83% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 55087010800?

18.8% of residents in tract 55087010800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,508.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 55087010800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 60th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 63th, household 33th, minority 23th, housing 78th.
Q5

Is tract 55087010800 considered part of River Drive?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 55087010800 fall within River Drive (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55087010800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 15 eviction filings across 8 validated years in tract 55087010800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.33% of renter households, peaking at 2.6% in 2007. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

What share of households in tract 55087010800 struggle to pay rent?

About 9.7% 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. 5.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8

How does tract 55087010800 compare to Appleton overall?

Tract 55087010800 scores 5.1/10, higher than the parent city of Appleton at 3.7/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Appleton eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in Appleton

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

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