Within parent city
20
th percentile
Low
Census Tract · Ranked #67,219 of 84,120 nationally
Caledonia Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 55101001506 · Racine County, WI · pop 4,397
With a score of 3/10, tract 55101001506 in Caledonia, WI reads lower for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 35%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 11%
Stable renters 15%
Owners 74%
Tract context
Occupied units1,663
Renter share26.7%
SVI overall0.27
Poverty rate1.5%
Median income$96,353
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
13
th percentile
Very Low
Within state
29
th percentile
Low
National
20
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Caledonia and the region
Centroid at 42.7875, -87.8033 · click any tract to drill in
Why Caledonia scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Caledonia
5.3
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.8
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
1.5% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$975 rent vs county FMR
3.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Caledonia
4.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Caledonia
4.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Caledonia
3.6
How Caledonia compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 27
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 11%Socioeconomic
- 71%Household composition
- 16%Racial/ethnic minority
- 42%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 0%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.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 7.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.9%Food insecurity
- 8.8%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 7.4%No health insurance
- 14.2%Frequent mental distress
- 29.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Caledonia
The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10. 42% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Racine County average of 36.6%.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.4/10. Average gross rent is $975, 15% below the Caledonia average.
Food insecurity runs 9.9% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 0.7 points below the Racine County average of 3.7.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Rent consumes only 12% of average household income of $96,353, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 55101001506
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55101001506?
Census tract 55101001506 in Caledonia 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 55101001506?
Median gross rent is $975/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 42% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55101001506?
1.5% of residents in tract 55101001506 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,397.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55101001506?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 27th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 11th, household 71th, minority 16th, housing 42th.
Q5
What share of households in tract 55101001506 struggle to pay rent?
About 7.9% 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. 4.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 55101001506 compare to Caledonia overall?
Tract 55101001506 scores 3/10, right in line with the parent city of Caledonia at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Caledonia eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q7
Was tract 55101001506 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 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 Caledonia
Top eight tracts in Caledonia ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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