Wanskuck Eviction Risk: High , Providence

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1.1/10. At $987 a month, rents run 30% under what the rest of Providence commands. 67% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby.

The poverty rate is 27%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 15% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 303 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 17.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Adults with no health insurance runs 18.4% against 11.3% nationally. Filings peaked in 2015 at 14.2% 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 13.0% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the RI average is 5.3, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.