Within neighborhood
50
th percentile
Moderate
Neighborhood · Ranked #17,650 of 84,120 nationally
Bernon Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Woonsocket
Tract 44007018500 · Providence County, RI · pop 2,700 · neighborhood within 1.1 mi
Census tract 44007018500 covers part of the Bernon Heights area of Woonsocket, RI, and scores 6.1/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,700 residents. Cost burden runs 63% here against 43.2% across Providence County.
Risk score
6.1
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 11%
Owners 70%
Tract context
Occupied units1,204
Renter share29.3%
SVI overall0.45
Poverty rate7.4%
Median income$74,783
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
8
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
57
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
69
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Woonsocket and the region
Centroid at 41.9960, -71.4839 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bernon Heights scores 6.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Woonsocket
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
7.4% poverty · this tract
1.9
Supply constraint
$1,205 rent vs county FMR
2.5
Rent control risk
Inherited from Woonsocket
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Woonsocket
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Woonsocket
7.0
How Bernon Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 45
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 43%Socioeconomic
- 55%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 42%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. 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
- 2%Grade C
- 45%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)
- 44Total filings over 2 yrs
- 5.53%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.8%Peak (2015)
- 21Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 135Total filings 2020-21
- 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.7Pre-pandemic baseline
- 1.05×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran near baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bernon Heights. 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.
- 13.8%Housing insecurity
- 8.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 16.0%Food insecurity
- 13.6%SNAP enrollment
- 8.2%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 18.2%Frequent mental distress
- 32.1%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bernon Heights
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. The severe-burden share is 28%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.
Running cool, economic stress reads 1.9/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 44 filings here across 2 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 5.8% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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 5.5% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 79th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. It tracks the Providence County average of 5.7 closely. Average gross rent is $1,205, close to the Woonsocket average.
Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $74,783.
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.
Frequently asked
About tract 44007018500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007018500?
Census tract 44007018500 in the Bernon Heights neighborhood scores 6.1/10 (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 44007018500?
Median gross rent is $1,205/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 63% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007018500?
7.4% of residents in tract 44007018500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,700.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007018500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 45th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 43th, household 55th, minority 41th, housing 42th.
Q5
Is tract 44007018500 considered part of Bernon Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007018500 fall within Bernon Heights (neighborhood centroid within 1.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007018500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 44 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007018500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.53% of renter households, peaking at 5.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007018500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 1.05× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings returned near baseline. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Portland, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 44007018500 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.8% 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. 8.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007018500 compare to Woonsocket overall?
Tract 44007018500 scores 6.1/10, lower than the parent city of Woonsocket at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Woonsocket eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 44007018500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 45% 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 Woonsocket
Top eight tracts in Woonsocket ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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