Centroid at 41.7813, -71.4138 · click any tract to drill in
Why Edgewood scores 6.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Cranston
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
8.7% poverty · this tract
2.2
Supply constraint
$1,251 rent vs county FMR
2.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cranston
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cranston
7.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cranston
6.5
How Edgewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 77
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
73%Socioeconomic
85%Household composition
87%Racial/ethnic minority
48%Housing & transportation
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.
1%Grade A
36%Grade B
3%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)
78Total filings over 2 yrs
4.78%Avg annual filing rate
6.0%Peak (2015)
34Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
182Total filings 2020-21
2.4Avg monthly (observed)
2.5Pre-pandemic baseline
0.95×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.
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
24.4%Housing insecurity
13.2%Utility-shutoff threat
28.9%Food insecurity
22.9%SNAP enrollment
12.9%Transit barriers
17.5%No health insurance
17.8%Frequent mental distress
32.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Edgewood
The main counterweight is economic stress at 2.2/10. Severe burden reaches 18%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 24.4% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Court records carry 78 eviction filings across 2 observed years. SNAP participation runs 22.9% against 15.2% nationally.
Against the Providence County average of 5.7, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.8 points. Average gross rent is $1,251, 11% below the Providence average.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 6.0% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 4.8% of renter households face a filing.
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 44007000102
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007000102?
Census tract 44007000102 in the Edgewood neighborhood scores 6.5/10 (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 44007000102?
Median gross rent is $1,251/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007000102?
8.7% of residents in tract 44007000102 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,667.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007000102?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 73th, household 85th, minority 87th, housing 48th.
Q5
Is tract 44007000102 considered part of Edgewood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007000102 fall within Edgewood (neighborhood centroid within 0.8 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007000102?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 78 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007000102 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.78% of renter households, peaking at 6.0% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007000102 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.95× 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 44007000102 struggle to pay rent?
About 24.4% 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. 13.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007000102 compare to Cranston overall?
Tract 44007000102 scores 6.5/10, higher 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 44007000102 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 Cranston
Top eight tracts in Cranston ranked by composite eviction-risk score.