Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #14,906 of 84,120 nationally
Wayland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Cranston
Tract 44007003500 · Providence County, RI · pop 5,077 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 44007003500 covers part of the Wayland area of Providence, RI, and scores 6.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. Population here is 5,077. Against Providence County at 43.2%, 60% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
6.6
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35%
Stable renters 24%
Owners 41%
Tract context
Occupied units2,668
Renter share59.1%
SVI overall0.37
Poverty rate13.3%
Median income$82,778
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
22
th percentile
Low
Within county
63
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
74
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cranston and the region
Centroid at 41.8296, -71.3837 · click any tract to drill in
Why Wayland scores 6.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal 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
13.3% poverty · this tract
3.3
Supply constraint
$1,690 rent vs county FMR
5.5
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 Wayland compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 37
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 40%Socioeconomic
- 10%Household composition
- 41%Racial/ethnic minority
- 64%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 45%Grade A
- 31%Grade B
- 15%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)
- 32Total filings over 2 yrs
- 1.01%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.1%Peak (2015)
- 14Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 85Total filings 2020-21
- 1.1Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.1Pre-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 Wayland. 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.
- 8.3%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.0%Food insecurity
- 6.9%SNAP enrollment
- 5.6%Transit barriers
- 4.3%No health insurance
- 15.3%Frequent mental distress
- 21.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Wayland
Severe burden reaches 23%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.5/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.5/10.
Average gross rent is $1,690, 20% above the Providence average. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 32 filings here across 2 tracked years.
It sits 0.9 points above the Providence County average of 5.7. SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally.
On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.3% against 11.3% nationally.
The worst year on record was 2015, when 1.1% of renter households were served. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). 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 1.0% 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 44007003500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007003500?
Census tract 44007003500 in the Wayland neighborhood scores 6.6/10 (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 44007003500?
Median gross rent is $1,690/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 60% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007003500?
13.3% of residents in tract 44007003500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,077.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007003500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 37th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 40th, household 10th, minority 41th, housing 64th.
Q5
Is tract 44007003500 considered part of Wayland?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007003500 fall within Wayland (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007003500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 32 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007003500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 1.01% of renter households, peaking at 1.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007003500 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 44007003500 struggle to pay rent?
About 8.3% 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. 5.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007003500 compare to Cranston overall?
Tract 44007003500 scores 6.6/10, 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 44007003500 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of A. 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.
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