Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #28,095 of 84,120 nationally
Blackstone Eviction Risk: Moderate , Providence
Tract 44007003300 · Providence County, RI · pop 4,380 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Census tract 44007003300 covers part of the Blackstone area of Providence, RI, and scores 5.3/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,380. Severe burden reaches 28%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5.3
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 12%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 65%
Tract context
Occupied units2,032
Renter share35.6%
SVI overall0.30
Poverty rate11.6%
Median income$124,063
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
2
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
44
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
57
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Providence and the region
Centroid at 41.8512, -71.4012 · click any tract to drill in
Why Blackstone scores 5.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Providence
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
11.6% poverty · this tract
2.9
Supply constraint
$1,688 rent vs county FMR
5.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Providence
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Providence
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Providence
6.5
How Blackstone compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 30
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 31%Socioeconomic
- 34%Household composition
- 33%Racial/ethnic minority
- 37%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 39%Grade B
- 29%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
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)
- 27Total filings over 2 yrs
- 1.86%Avg annual filing rate
- 2.6%Peak (2016)
- 18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 92Total filings 2020-21
- 1.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.5Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.78×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Blackstone. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 9.1%Housing insecurity
- 5.8%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.4%Food insecurity
- 8.0%SNAP enrollment
- 5.5%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 14.8%Frequent mental distress
- 22.4%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Blackstone
35% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, lower than the Providence County average of 43.2%. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.5/10.
Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,688, 20% above the Providence average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 27 filings here across 2 tracked years.
Food insecurity runs 9.4% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.9/10.
SNAP participation runs 8.0% against 15.2% nationally. Filings peaked in 2016 at 2.6% of renter households. 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 1.9% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 67th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.7/10.
Against average income of $124,063, annual rent is just 16%. It tracks the Providence County average of 5.7 closely.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 44007003300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007003300?
Census tract 44007003300 in the Blackstone neighborhood scores 5.3/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 44007003300?
Median gross rent is $1,688/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 35% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007003300?
11.6% of residents in tract 44007003300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,380.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007003300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 30th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 31th, household 34th, minority 33th, housing 37th.
Q5
Is tract 44007003300 considered part of Blackstone?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007003300 fall within Blackstone (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007003300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 27 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007003300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.86% of renter households, peaking at 2.6% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007003300 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.78× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Portland, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 44007003300 struggle to pay rent?
About 9.1% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 5.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007003300 compare to Providence overall?
Tract 44007003300 scores 5.3/10, lower than the parent city of Providence at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Providence eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 44007003300 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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