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Neighborhood · Ranked #8,653 of 84,120 nationally

Social Eviction Risk: Elevated , Woonsocket

Tract 44007018000 · Providence County, RI · pop 2,577 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi

With a score of 7.9/10, tract 44007018000 in the Social area of Woonsocket, RI reads elevated for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 2,577 residents. The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10.

Risk score
7.9
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 46% Stable renters 42% Owners 12%
Tract context
Occupied units1,311
Renter share88.3%
SVI overall0.95
Poverty rate27.5%
Median income$28,902

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 3 tracts In Social
Very High
Within parent city
58 th percentile
Rank, 58th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 13 tracts In Woonsocket
Elevated
Within county
82 th percentile
Rank, 82nd percentileLowHigh
#27 of 145 tracts In Providence County
High
Within state
89 th percentile
Rank, 89th percentileLowHigh
#27 of 247 tracts In Rhode Island
High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Woonsocket and the region

Centroid at 42.0062, -71.5105 · click any tract to drill in

Why Social scores 7.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local 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
27.5% poverty · this tract
6.9
Supply constraint
$826 rent vs county FMR
1.0
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 Social compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Social risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 7.97.9This tracttract 018000Woonsocket: 6.56.5Woonsocketparent cityCounty: 5.75.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.35.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

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

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.

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)

  • 203Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 7.53%Avg annual filing rate
  • 7.3%Peak (2015)
  • 101Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 605Total filings 2020-21
  • 7.9Avg monthly (observed)
  • 8.2Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.96×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 14 filings (1.27× baseline)2020-02-01: 10 filings (1.74× baseline)2020-03-01: 2 filings (0.33× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 8 filings (1.07× baseline)2020-07-01: 6 filings (0.56× baseline)2020-08-01: 7 filings (0.62× baseline)2020-09-01: 3 filings (0.39× baseline)2020-10-01: 12 filings (1.02× baseline)2020-11-01: 6 filings (0.50× baseline)2020-12-01: 6 filings (1.09× baseline)2021-01-01: 8 filings (0.73× baseline)2021-02-01: 5 filings (0.91× baseline)2021-03-01: 4 filings (0.67× baseline)2021-04-01: 3 filings (0.41× baseline)2021-05-01: 7 filings (0.80× baseline)2021-06-01: 6 filings (0.80× baseline)2021-07-01: 4 filings (0.37× baseline)2021-08-01: 6 filings (0.53× baseline)2021-09-01: 11 filings (1.42× baseline)2021-10-01: 11 filings (0.94× baseline)2021-11-01: 10 filings (0.83× baseline)2021-12-01: 9 filings (1.64× baseline)2022-01-01: 10 filings (0.91× baseline)2022-02-01: 4 filings (0.73× baseline)2022-03-01: 7 filings (1.17× baseline)2022-04-01: 5 filings (0.69× baseline)2022-05-01: 3 filings (0.34× baseline)2022-06-01: 8 filings (1.07× baseline)2022-07-01: 8 filings (0.74× baseline)2022-08-01: 12 filings (1.07× baseline)2022-09-01: 10 filings (1.29× baseline)2022-10-01: 16 filings (1.36× baseline)2022-11-01: 11 filings (0.92× baseline)2022-12-01: 11 filings (2.00× baseline)2023-01-01: 15 filings (1.36× baseline)2023-02-01: 4 filings (0.73× baseline)2023-03-01: 6 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-04-01: 4 filings (0.55× baseline)2023-05-01: 6 filings (0.69× baseline)2023-06-01: 12 filings (1.60× baseline)2023-07-01: 5 filings (0.47× baseline)2023-08-01: 9 filings (0.80× baseline)2023-09-01: 11 filings (1.42× baseline)2023-10-01: 17 filings (1.45× baseline)2023-11-01: 2 filings (0.17× baseline)2023-12-01: 10 filings (1.82× baseline)2024-01-01: 7 filings (0.64× baseline)2024-02-01: 12 filings (2.09× baseline)2024-03-01: 10 filings (1.67× baseline)2024-04-01: 14 filings (1.93× baseline)2024-05-01: 7 filings (0.80× baseline)2024-06-01: 14 filings (1.87× baseline)2024-07-01: 12 filings (1.12× baseline)2024-08-01: 15 filings (1.33× baseline)2024-09-01: 11 filings (1.42× baseline)2024-10-01: 2 filings (0.17× baseline)2024-11-01: 4 filings (0.33× baseline)2024-12-01: 10 filings (1.82× baseline)2025-01-01: 9 filings (0.82× baseline)2025-02-01: 6 filings (1.09× baseline)2025-03-01: 6 filings (1.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 9 filings (1.24× baseline)2025-05-01: 1 filings (0.11× baseline)2025-06-01: 7 filings (0.93× baseline)2025-07-01: 13 filings (1.21× baseline)2025-08-01: 9 filings (0.80× baseline)2025-09-01: 10 filings (1.29× baseline)2025-10-01: 7 filings (0.60× baseline)2025-11-01: 5 filings (0.42× baseline)2025-12-01: 9 filings (1.64× baseline)2026-01-01: 5 filings (50.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 6 filings (60.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 14 filings (140.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 7 filings (70.00× 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 Social. 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 Social

This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. It sits 2.2 points above the Providence County average of 5.7.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

SNAP participation runs 32.3% against 15.2% nationally. Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $28,902, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Average gross rent is $826, 29% below the Woonsocket average.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. 52% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, above the Providence County average of 43.2%.

Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 23.5% against 14.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 203 filings here across 2 tracked years.

The worst year on record was 2015, when 7.3% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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 7.5% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #8,653 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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

Frequently asked

About tract 44007018000

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007018000?

Census tract 44007018000 in the Social neighborhood scores 7.9/10 (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 44007018000?

Median gross rent is $826/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 52% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 44007018000?

27.5% of residents in tract 44007018000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 2,577.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 44007018000?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 88th, household 94th, minority 69th, housing 92th.
Q5

Is tract 44007018000 considered part of Social?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007018000 fall within Social (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007018000?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 203 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007018000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 7.53% of renter households, peaking at 7.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 44007018000 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.96× 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 44007018000 struggle to pay rent?

About 23.5% 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. 15.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 44007018000 compare to Woonsocket overall?

Tract 44007018000 scores 7.9/10, higher 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 44007018000 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. 37% 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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