This article comes from our Q2 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

A torrent of evictions in Dane County only grew more severe in the past three months, according to the latest Tenant Resource Center evictions data. Landlords filed 619 eviction actions, involving approximately 500 households, from December 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023 – a 40 percent increase over the previous quarter and nearly double the number of evictions during those same months last year. Mirroring previous quarters, most of the evictions were filed due to nonpayment of rent: 538 households (87%) faced eviction due to unpaid rent with the average household owing roughly $2,500; another 18 (3%) due to non-rent related lease violations; and 37 (6%) due to “holding over” past the end of a lease term.

This article comes from our Q1 2023 EDDP report, which you can view here.

According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, there are 88,450 rental units in Dane County. Of the 1,629 eviction filings in 2022, 1,429 (88%) were for nonpayment of rent, 56 (3%) were for remaining in the rental unit after the expiration date of the rental agreement (commonly referred to as “holding over”), and the remaining 144 (9%) filings were for other breeches of the rental agreement.