West Bend Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 55131420104 · Washington County, WI · pop 4,862 · 35% of tract blocks fall in West Bend
55131420104 is a census tract in West Bend, WI. It scores 4.3/10 for landlords. Population here is 4,862. Cost burden runs 74% here against 36.7% across Washington County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across West Bend and the region
Centroid at 43.4541, -88.2301 · click any tract to drill in
Why West Bend scores 4.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow West Bend compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 36%Socioeconomic
- 15%Household composition
- 4%Racial/ethnic minority
- 72%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)
- 167Total filings over 18 yrs
- 1.55%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.3%Peak (2006)
- 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 7.3%Housing insecurity
- 4.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.1%Food insecurity
- 9.1%SNAP enrollment
- 5.3%Transit barriers
- 6.7%No health insurance
- 14.2%Frequent mental distress
- 29.0%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in West Bend
The severe-burden share is 30%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,468 a month, rents run 36% over what the rest of West Bend commands. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.7/10.
Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.8/10. The voucher gap is 16.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Food insecurity runs 9.1% against 17.8% nationally.
The filing record is not thin: 167 evictions over 18 years of observation. Running cool, state political climate reads 2.9/10. The worst year on record was 2006, when 2.3% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 1.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 47th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.1/10. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
It tracks the Washington County average of 3.8 closely. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $82,267.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in West Bend
Top eight tracts in West Bend ranked by composite eviction-risk score.