Historic Downtown Burlington Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55101002402 · Racine County, WI · pop 5,933 · neighborhood within 1.0 mi
How risky is Historic Downtown Burlington in Burlington for landlords? Census tract 55101002402 scores $1/10, the Moderate tier. That is riskier than about 37% of US census tracts.
26% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a moderate level, and 15% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $949 a month against an average household income of $66,920 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. About 59% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Burlington and the region
Centroid at 42.6830, -88.2585 · click any tract to drill in
Why Historic Downtown Burlington scores 4.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Historic Downtown Burlington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 52
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 28%Socioeconomic
- 65%Household composition
- 29%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
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)
- 297Total filings over 11 yrs
- 2.60%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.1%Peak (2002)
- 25Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Historic Downtown Burlington. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.7%Housing insecurity
- 7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.5%Food insecurity
- 17.9%SNAP enrollment
- 8.4%Transit barriers
- 9.8%No health insurance
- 17.2%Frequent mental distress
- 33.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Historic Downtown Burlington
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at 8.8/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Burlington, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Racine County average of 4.9 and above the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 297 eviction filings here over 11 tracked years, with about 2.6% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 5.1% of renter households in 2002.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 52nd percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 55101002402
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