Historic Starin Park Eviction Risk: Elevated , Whitewater
Tract 55127000501 · Walworth County, WI · pop 4,241 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
The Elevated-tier score of $1/10 for census tract 55127000501 reflects conditions in the Historic Starin Park neighborhood of Whitewater, Wisconsin. On the national scale it ranks #22,402 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
About 69% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 46% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $840 monthly, set against $24,200 in average yearly household income, roughly 42% of income at the averages. About 94% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Whitewater and the region
Centroid at 42.8391, -88.7534 · click any tract to drill in
Why Historic Starin Park scores 6.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Historic Starin Park compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 67%Socioeconomic
- 1%Household composition
- 25%Racial/ethnic minority
- 80%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)
- 205Total filings over 9 yrs
- 2.37%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.5%Peak (2015)
- 19Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Historic Starin Park. 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.
- 19.4%Housing insecurity
- 13.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 33.8%Food insecurity
- 38.9%SNAP enrollment
- 22.1%Transit barriers
- 13.2%No health insurance
- 29.6%Frequent mental distress
- 42.8%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Historic Starin Park
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Whitewater eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores well above the Walworth County average of 4.2 and above the Wisconsin statewide average of 4.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 19.4% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 13.0% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 42nd 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, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
About tract 55127000501
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Highest-risk tracts in Whitewater
Top eight tracts in Whitewater ranked by composite eviction-risk score.