Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #7,836 of 84,120 nationally
Wanskuck Eviction Risk: High , Providence
Tract 44007002802 · Providence County, RI · pop 2,831 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 44007002802 sits in the Wanskuck area of Providence eviction risk, RI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8/10. It is home to 2,831 residents. Severe burden reaches 38%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
8
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 33%
Stable renters 18%
Owners 49%
Tract context
Occupied units1,377
Renter share51.3%
SVI overall0.93
Poverty rate23.8%
Median income$36,332
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
93
th percentile
Very High
Within county
93
th percentile
Very High
Within state
99
th percentile
Very High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Providence and the region
Centroid at 41.8550, -71.4286 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wanskuck scores 8
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
23.8% poverty · this tract
5.9
Supply constraint
$1,363 rent vs county FMR
3.4
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 Wanskuck compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 93
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 88%Socioeconomic
- 72%Household composition
- 87%Racial/ethnic minority
- 92%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 92%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
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 226Total filings 2020-21
- 2.9Avg monthly (observed)
- 4.9Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.60×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Wanskuck. 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.
- 24.8%Housing insecurity
- 14.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 30.5%Food insecurity
- 27.4%SNAP enrollment
- 14.2%Transit barriers
- 16.6%No health insurance
- 19.3%Frequent mental distress
- 35.7%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wanskuck
Cost burden runs 65% here against 43.2% across Providence County. Set annual rent against average income of $36,332 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. It sits 2.3 points above the Providence County average of 5.7.
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.5/10. Food insecurity runs 30.5% against 17.8% nationally.
The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. On the high side, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7/10.
Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.7% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 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. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 9.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the RI average is 5.3, so this tract runs 2.7 points hotter.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 44007002802
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007002802?
Census tract 44007002802 in the Wanskuck neighborhood scores 8/10 (High 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 44007002802?
Median gross rent is $1,363/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 65% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007002802?
23.8% of residents in tract 44007002802 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,831.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007002802?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 93th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 72th, minority 87th, housing 92th.
Q5
Is tract 44007002802 considered part of Wanskuck?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007002802 fall within Wanskuck (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
Did eviction filings in tract 44007002802 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.60× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Portland, OR), 2020-2021.
Q7
What share of households in tract 44007002802 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.8% 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. 14.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 44007002802 compare to Providence overall?
Tract 44007002802 scores 8/10, higher 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.
Q9
Was tract 44007002802 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 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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