Neighborhood · Ranked #50,654 of 84,120 nationally
Pocasset Eviction Risk: Lower , Cranston
Tract 44007013800 ·
Providence County, RI · pop 5,044 · neighborhood within 0.8 mi
Census tract 44007013800 covers part of the Pocasset area of Cranston, RI, and scores 3.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,044. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
3.9
Lower
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 14%Stable renters 13%Owners 73%
Tract context
Occupied units2,230
Renter share26.4%
SVI overall0.24
Poverty rate9.8%
Median income$83,466
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
50th percentile
#1 of 1 tracts In Pocasset
Moderate
Within parent city
56th percentile
#8 of 17 tracts In Cranston
Elevated
Within county
23th percentile
#112 of 145 tracts In Providence County
Low
Within state
28th percentile
#178 of 247 tracts In Rhode Island
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cranston and the region
Centroid at 41.7664, -71.4387 · click any tract to drill in
Why Pocasset scores 3.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cranston
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
9.8% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
$1,553 rent vs county FMR
4.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cranston
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cranston
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cranston
5.5
How Pocasset compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 24
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
15%Socioeconomic
38%Household composition
43%Racial/ethnic minority
38%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
14%Grade A
10%Grade B
1%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)
49Total filings over 2 yrs
5.07%Avg annual filing rate
6.1%Peak (2016)
29Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
214Total filings 2020-21
2.8Avg monthly (observed)
3.2Pre-pandemic baseline
0.87×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–20212020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
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.
12.3%Housing insecurity
7.3%Utility-shutoff threat
13.2%Food insecurity
11.0%SNAP enrollment
7.1%Transit barriers
6.6%No health insurance
17.0%Frequent mental distress
26.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Pocasset
Against the Providence County average of 5.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.8 points. Cost burden runs roughly one in two here against 43.2% across Providence County.
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.5/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 2.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 49 filings here across 2 tracked years.
Average gross rent is $1,553, 13% above the Cranston average. Filings peaked in 2016 at 6.1% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 5.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 40th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 3.2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the RI average is 5.3, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $83,466.
26% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 44007013800
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007013800?
Census tract 44007013800 in the Pocasset neighborhood scores 3.9/10 (Lower 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 44007013800?
Median gross rent is $1,553/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 53% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007013800?
9.8% of residents in tract 44007013800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,044.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007013800?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 24th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 15th, household 38th, minority 43th, housing 38th.
Q5
Is tract 44007013800 considered part of Pocasset?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007013800 fall within Pocasset (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007013800?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 49 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007013800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.07% of renter households, peaking at 6.1% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007013800 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.87× 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 44007013800 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.3% 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. 7.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007013800 compare to Cranston overall?
Tract 44007013800 scores 3.9/10, lower than the parent city of Cranston at 4.3/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Cranston eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 44007013800 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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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Top eight tracts in Cranston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.