Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Census Tract · Ranked #35,669 of 84,120 nationally
Reedsburg Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55111001002 · Sauk County, WI · pop 3,447 · 66% of tract blocks fall in Reedsburg
Census tract 55111001002 covers part of Reedsburg, WI, and scores 4.8/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,447 residents. Cost burden runs about half here against 31.8% across Sauk County.
Risk score
4.8
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 23%
Stable renters 26%
Owners 51%
Tract context
Occupied units1,173
Renter share49.3%
SVI overall0.89
Poverty rate12.5%
Median income$57,917
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
96
th percentile
Very High
Within state
80
th percentile
High
National
58
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Reedsburg and the region
Centroid at 43.5242, -89.9818 · click any tract to drill in
Why Reedsburg scores 4.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Reedsburg
5.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
5.1
State political climate
Wisconsin legislature & governorship
2.9
Economic stress
12.5% poverty · this tract
3.1
Supply constraint
$948 rent vs county FMR
3.7
Rent control risk
Inherited from Reedsburg
4.6
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Reedsburg
7.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from Reedsburg
5.1
How Reedsburg compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 89
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 55%Socioeconomic
- 98%Household composition
- 36%Racial/ethnic minority
- 99%Housing & transportation
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)
- 230Total filings over 14 yrs
- 3.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 6.6%Peak (2008)
- 17Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings climbed 143% over the past 14 months.
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.
- 13.7%Housing insecurity
- 8.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.9%Food insecurity
- 21.9%SNAP enrollment
- 9.7%Transit barriers
- 11.4%No health insurance
- 18.6%Frequent mental distress
- 37.9%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Reedsburg
Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 7.9/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.5/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Sauk County average of 3.7. The filing record is not thin: 230 evictions over 14 years of observation.
On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.9/10. The worst year on record was 2008, when 6.6% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 3.4% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 58th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WI average is 3.9, so this tract runs 0.9 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.
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 55111001002
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 55111001002?
Census tract 55111001002 in Reedsburg scores 4.8/10 (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 55111001002?
Median gross rent is $948/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 47% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 55111001002?
12.5% of residents in tract 55111001002 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,447.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 55111001002?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 89th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 55th, household 98th, minority 36th, housing 99th.
Q5
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 55111001002?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 230 eviction filings across 14 validated years in tract 55111001002 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.37% of renter households, peaking at 6.6% in 2008. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q6
What share of households in tract 55111001002 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.7% 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. 8.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7
How does tract 55111001002 compare to Reedsburg overall?
Tract 55111001002 scores 4.8/10, higher than the parent city of Reedsburg at 3.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Reedsburg; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Reedsburg
Top eight tracts in Reedsburg ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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