Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Fruit Hill Eviction Risk: Moderate , Providence
Tract 44007012000 · Providence County, RI · pop 6,617 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
Census tract 44007012000 covers part of the Fruit Hill area of Providence County, RI, and scores 4.6/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 6,617 residents. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 80% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 9%
Stable renters 16%
Owners 75%
Tract context
Occupied units2,632
Renter share25.5%
SVI overall0.43
Poverty rate9.3%
Median income$80,625
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
34
th percentile
Low
Within state
44
th percentile
Moderate
National
53
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Providence and the region
Centroid at 41.8524, -71.4627 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fruit Hill scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Providence
5.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
9.3% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,356 rent vs county FMR
3.4
Rent control risk
Inherited from Providence
5.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Providence
4.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Providence
5.0
How Fruit Hill compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 43
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 33%Socioeconomic
- 35%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 68%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.
- 0%Grade A
- 31%Grade B
- 0%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)
- 49Total filings over 2 yrs
- 2.94%Avg annual filing rate
- 3.9%Peak (2016)
- 32Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 140Total filings 2020-21
- 1.8Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.70×Ratio to 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 Fruit Hill. 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.
- 12.1%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.2%Food insecurity
- 11.4%SNAP enrollment
- 7.1%Transit barriers
- 6.5%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 28.0%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Fruit Hill
The clearest offset is economic stress at 2.3/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.
Cost burden runs 37% here against 43.2% across Providence County. It sits 1.1 points below the Providence County average of 5.7.
The filing record is not thin: 49 evictions over 2 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 3.9% 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 2.9% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #39,308 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.9/10.
Average gross rent runs $1,356 a month. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $80,625.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 44007012000
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007012000?
Census tract 44007012000 in the Fruit Hill neighborhood scores 4.6/10 (Moderate 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 44007012000?
Median gross rent is $1,356/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 37% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007012000?
9.3% of residents in tract 44007012000 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 6,617.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007012000?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 43th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 33th, household 35th, minority 37th, housing 68th.
Q5
Is tract 44007012000 considered part of Fruit Hill?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007012000 fall within Fruit Hill (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007012000?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 49 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007012000 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 2.94% of renter households, peaking at 3.9% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007012000 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.70× 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 44007012000 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.1% 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. 7.4% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007012000 compare to Providence overall?
Tract 44007012000 scores 4.6/10, lower than the parent city of Providence at 6.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Providence eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 44007012000 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.
Related