Brenton Village Eviction Risk: Elevated , Newport

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.2/10. Severe burden reaches 25%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The voucher gap is 26.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 7.8/10. At $2,039 a month, rents run 20% over what the rest of Newport commands. Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.6/10.

Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 14 eviction filings across 1 observed years. SNAP participation runs 7.5% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 0.8 points above the Newport County average of 6.2. Filings peaked in 2016 at 1.8% of renter households. In a typical year about 1.8% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #12,919 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the RI average is 5.3, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.