Blackstone Eviction Risk: Moderate , Providence

At $1,778 a month, rents run 26% over what the rest of Providence commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The filing record is not thin: 38 evictions over 2 years of observation. Food insecurity runs 10.1% against 17.8% nationally.

The worst year on record was 2016, when 2.8% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 70th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 1.5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.