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Woodlawn Eviction Risk: Elevated , Pawtucket

Tract 44007016400 · Providence County, RI · pop 5,049 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi

44007016400 is a census tract in the Woodlawn area of Pawtucket, RI. It scores 7.3/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,049 residents. Against Providence County at 43.2%, 72% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score
7.3
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 53% Stable renters 21% Owners 26%
Tract context
Occupied units1,966
Renter share73.3%
SVI overall0.94
Poverty rate24.3%
Median income$43,406

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
57 th percentile
Rank, 57th percentileLowHigh
#4 of 8 tracts In Woodlawn
Elevated
Within parent city
95 th percentile
Rank, 95th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 21 tracts In Pawtucket
Very High
Within county
74 th percentile
Rank, 74th percentileLowHigh
#38 of 145 tracts In Providence County
Elevated
Within state
81 th percentile
Rank, 81st percentileLowHigh
#47 of 247 tracts In Rhode Island
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pawtucket and the region

Centroid at 41.8638, -71.3983 · click any tract to drill in

Why Woodlawn scores 7.3

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pawtucket
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
24.3% poverty · this tract
6.1
Supply constraint
$1,132 rent vs county FMR
2.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pawtucket
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pawtucket
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pawtucket
6.0

How Woodlawn compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Woodlawn risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.37.3This tracttract 016400Pawtucket: 5.95.9Pawtucketparent cityCounty: 5.75.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.35.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 94

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

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

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)

  • 181Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 7.72%Avg annual filing rate
  • 8.1%Peak (2015)
  • 84Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 460Total filings 2020-21
  • 6.0Avg monthly (observed)
  • 7.4Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.81×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 8 filings (0.80× baseline)2020-02-01: 7 filings (1.22× baseline)2020-03-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 3 filings (0.30× baseline)2020-07-01: 3 filings (0.44× baseline)2020-08-01: 9 filings (0.84× baseline)2020-09-01: 5 filings (0.61× baseline)2020-10-01: 3 filings (0.35× baseline)2020-11-01: 7 filings (0.85× baseline)2020-12-01: 6 filings (0.96× baseline)2021-01-01: 3 filings (0.30× baseline)2021-02-01: 2 filings (0.35× baseline)2021-03-01: 3 filings (0.57× baseline)2021-04-01: 2 filings (0.32× baseline)2021-05-01: 10 filings (1.18× baseline)2021-06-01: 5 filings (0.50× baseline)2021-07-01: 3 filings (0.44× baseline)2021-08-01: 4 filings (0.37× baseline)2021-09-01: 17 filings (2.06× baseline)2021-10-01: 6 filings (0.71× baseline)2021-11-01: 5 filings (0.61× baseline)2021-12-01: 5 filings (0.80× baseline)2022-01-01: 6 filings (0.60× baseline)2022-02-01: 9 filings (1.57× baseline)2022-03-01: 2 filings (0.38× baseline)2022-04-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2022-05-01: 4 filings (0.47× baseline)2022-06-01: 4 filings (0.40× baseline)2022-07-01: 7 filings (1.04× baseline)2022-08-01: 9 filings (0.84× baseline)2022-09-01: 8 filings (0.97× baseline)2022-10-01: 16 filings (1.88× baseline)2022-11-01: 12 filings (1.45× baseline)2022-12-01: 4 filings (0.64× baseline)2023-01-01: 9 filings (0.90× baseline)2023-02-01: 10 filings (1.74× baseline)2023-03-01: 10 filings (1.90× baseline)2023-04-01: 8 filings (1.28× baseline)2023-05-01: 9 filings (1.06× baseline)2023-06-01: 5 filings (0.50× baseline)2023-07-01: 4 filings (0.59× baseline)2023-08-01: 3 filings (0.28× baseline)2023-09-01: 3 filings (0.36× baseline)2023-10-01: 4 filings (0.47× baseline)2023-11-01: 7 filings (0.85× baseline)2023-12-01: 5 filings (0.80× baseline)2024-01-01: 11 filings (1.10× baseline)2024-02-01: 7 filings (1.22× baseline)2024-03-01: 10 filings (1.90× baseline)2024-04-01: 9 filings (1.44× baseline)2024-05-01: 10 filings (1.18× baseline)2024-06-01: 5 filings (0.50× baseline)2024-07-01: 8 filings (1.19× baseline)2024-08-01: 5 filings (0.47× baseline)2024-09-01: 11 filings (1.33× baseline)2024-10-01: 5 filings (0.59× baseline)2024-11-01: 4 filings (0.48× baseline)2024-12-01: 1 filings (0.16× baseline)2025-01-01: 5 filings (0.50× baseline)2025-02-01: 4 filings (0.70× baseline)2025-03-01: 4 filings (0.76× baseline)2025-04-01: 4 filings (0.64× baseline)2025-05-01: 11 filings (1.29× baseline)2025-06-01: 12 filings (1.20× baseline)2025-07-01: 3 filings (0.44× baseline)2025-08-01: 2 filings (0.19× baseline)2025-09-01: 9 filings (1.09× baseline)2025-10-01: 8 filings (0.94× baseline)2025-11-01: 10 filings (1.21× baseline)2025-12-01: 8 filings (1.28× baseline)2026-01-01: 4 filings (40.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 7 filings (70.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 3 filings (30.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Woodlawn. 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Woodlawn

The severe-burden share is 36%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. SNAP participation runs 38.2% against 15.2% nationally. This is renter territory: 73% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Housing insecurity runs 31.0% against 14.2% nationally. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 2/10.

It sits 1.6 points above the Providence County average of 5.7. The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. The filing record is not thin: 181 evictions over 2 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2015 at 8.1% of renter households.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 7.7% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 44007016400

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007016400?

Census tract 44007016400 in the Woodlawn neighborhood scores 7.3/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 44007016400?

Median gross rent is $1,132/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 72% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 44007016400?

24.3% of residents in tract 44007016400 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,049.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 44007016400?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 94th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 94th, household 88th, minority 82th, housing 82th.
Q5

Is tract 44007016400 considered part of Woodlawn?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007016400 fall within Woodlawn (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007016400?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 181 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007016400 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.72% of renter households, peaking at 8.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 44007016400 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.81× 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 44007016400 struggle to pay rent?

About 31.0% 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. 21.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 44007016400 compare to Pawtucket overall?

Tract 44007016400 scores 7.3/10, higher than the parent city of Pawtucket at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pawtucket eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10

Was tract 44007016400 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 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 Pawtucket

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

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