Thornton Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cranston

about half of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Providence County average of 43.2%. At $1,057 a month, rents run 23% under what the rest of Cranston commands. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.

13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 2.7/10.

It sits 0.9 points below the Providence County average of 5.7. The filing record is not thin: 173 evictions over 2 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2015, when 5.2% of renter households were served.

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 5.0% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #35,669 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $53,720.

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