This article comes from our Q3 2025 EDDP report, which you can view here.

72% of households facing eviction this quarter had their cases dismissed due to the efforts of the EDDP.

Eviction filings picked up in Dane County during the past three months as the county’s major source for rental assistance finished winding down, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center data. Eviction judgments also increased.

This overview of eviction in Dane County appears in our Q2 EDDP Program Report for April - June 2025. Read the full Q2 2025 Report here, and last quarter's eviction overview here.

Eviction filings slowed in Dane County during the past three months, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center data. Despite fewer filings, the number of eviction judgments held steady.

This article comes from our Q1 2025 EDDP report, which you can view here.

More renters faced eviction in Dane County in the past three months than at any point in at least the past five years, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center data. Landlords filed for 803 evictions between January 1st and March 31st, a 19% jump from the previous quarter.

This article comes from our Q4 2024 EDDP report, which you can view here.

More renters faced eviction in Dane County this past year than at any point in the past decade. Landlords filed for 2,656 evictions in 2024, a 9% jump from the prior year, which itself saw a record-setting number of evictions.

This article comes from our Q3 2024 EDDP report, which you can view here.

New eviction filings increased significantly in Dane County this past quarter. Landlords filed for eviction 702 times against 689 unique households between July 1st and September 30th, an 18 percent increase from the previous quarter and the most filed since at least the start of 2021.

This article comes from our Q2 2024 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Over 86% of households facing eviction in the past 3 months had their cases dismissed due to the efforts of the EDDP.

New eviction filings slowed in Dane County this past quarter, but court activity and court dates reached a post-pandemic high, according to the latest eviction court data. This suggests that the slight decrease in new filings is at least, in part, explained by increasing numbers of cases that are ongoing through the eviction process.

This article comes from our Q1 2024 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Landlords in Dane County filed for eviction more times in the first quarter of 2024 than in any previous quarter since at least 2021. This continues a worrying post-pandemic trend that has seen more tenants face the threat of eviction than ever before. A total of 689 evictions targeting 659 unique households were filed between January 1st and March 31st, 2024, a 10% increase from the same months in 2023 and more than double the number filed in the same time period in 2022.

This article comes from our 2023 EDDP Year-End report, which you can view here.

Most evictions ended in dismissals due to the efforts of the EDDP program and its partners; 82% of cases were dismissed.

This article comes from our Q4 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Landlords have now filed more evictions in 2023 (1,669) with four months left in the year than in all of 2022 (1,531), according to the latest Tenant Resource Center eviction data. Eviction filings rose slightly in the past three months: Landlords filed 630 eviction actions, involving approximately 493 households, from June 1, 2023 to August 31, 2023 -- a 4% increase compared to the previous quarter. EDDP staff and partners helped tenants in more hearings and trials than ever before, assisting in 913 hearings as well as 45 trials and motion hearings.

This article comes from our Q3 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

Eviction filings slowed slightly in the past three months, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center evictions data. Landlords filed 584 eviction actions, involving approximately 560 households, from March 1, 2023 to May 31, 2023 – a 6 percent decrease compared to the previous quarter but still roughly 75% more than the same months last year. In all, EDDP staff and partners assisted in 846 hearings as well as 9 trials.