Downtown Eviction Risk: High , Providence

Set annual rent against average income of $54,747 and the ratio lands at 44%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 2.3 points above the Providence County average of 5.7.

18% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The voucher gap is 24.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.5/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

Running hot, supply constraint reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 105 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.8% of renter households. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Providence. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

In a typical year about 3.1% of renter households face a filing.

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