Neighborhood · Ranked #16,032 of 84,120 nationally

Kent Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , East Providence

Tract 44007010501 · Providence County, RI · pop 5,195 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

44007010501 is a census tract in the Kent Heights area of East Providence, RI. It scores 6.4/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,195 residents. Cost burden runs 58% here against 43.2% across Providence County.

Risk score

6.4

Elevated

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 19% Stable renters 14% Owners 67%

Tract context

Occupied units1,820

Renter share32.7%

SVI overall0.63

Poverty rate17.6%

Median income$79,536

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across East Providence and the region

Centroid at 41.8012, -71.3504 · click any tract to drill in

Why Kent Heights scores 6.4

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from East Providence

6.8

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.1

State political climate

Rhode Island legislature & governorship

5.5

Economic stress

17.6% poverty · this tract

4.4

Supply constraint

$948 rent vs county FMR

1.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from East Providence

6.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

5.5

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from East Providence

8.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from East Providence

5.7

How Kent Heights compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 63

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

57%Socioeconomic
57%Household composition
42%Racial/ethnic minority
71%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
7%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)

29Total filings over 2 yrs
2.27%Avg annual filing rate
2.5%Peak (2015)
11Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

164Total filings 2020-21
2.1Avg monthly (observed)
2.0Pre-pandemic baseline
1.06×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran near 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.

16.8%Housing insecurity
10.8%Utility-shutoff threat
21.1%Food insecurity
20.6%SNAP enrollment
10.6%Transit barriers
9.5%No health insurance
19.5%Frequent mental distress
36.1%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Kent Heights

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. At $948 a month, rents run 26% under what the rest of East Providence commands. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Court records carry 29 eviction filings across 2 observed years.

Against the Providence County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2015, when 2.5% 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 2.3% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #16,032 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.7/10.

Rent consumes only 14% of average household income of $79,536, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 44007010501

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007010501?

Census tract 44007010501 in the Kent Heights neighborhood scores 6.4/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 44007010501?

Median gross rent is $948/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 44007010501?

17.6% of residents in tract 44007010501 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,195.

How socially vulnerable is tract 44007010501?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 57th, household 57th, minority 42th, housing 71th.

Is tract 44007010501 considered part of Kent Heights?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007010501 fall within Kent Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007010501?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 29 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007010501 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.27% of renter households, peaking at 2.5% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 44007010501 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 1.06× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Portland, OR), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 44007010501 struggle to pay rent?

About 16.8% 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. 10.8% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 44007010501 compare to East Providence overall?

Tract 44007010501 scores 6.4/10, higher than the parent city of East Providence at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from East Providence eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Q10

Was tract 44007010501 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.

Sibling tracts

Highest-risk tracts in East Providence

Top eight tracts in East Providence ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org