Within neighborhood
33
th percentile
Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #39,308 of 84,120 nationally
Edgewood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Cranston
Tract 44007013500 · Providence County, RI · pop 4,544 · neighborhood within 0.1 mi
With a score of 4.6/10, tract 44007013500 in the Edgewood area of Cranston, RI reads moderate for landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 20%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
4.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 24%
Owners 57%
Tract context
Occupied units2,190
Renter share43.3%
SVI overall0.74
Poverty rate13.5%
Median income$71,143
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
81
th percentile
High
Within county
33
th percentile
Low
Within state
44
th percentile
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Cranston and the region
Centroid at 41.7811, -71.3952 · click any tract to drill in
Why Edgewood scores 4.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Cranston
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
13.5% poverty · this tract
3.4
Supply constraint
$1,328 rent vs county FMR
3.2
Rent control risk
Inherited from Cranston
3.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
5.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Cranston
4.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Cranston
5.5
How Edgewood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 74
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 72%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 78%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.
- 16%Grade A
- 79%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)
- 71Total filings over 2 yrs
- 4.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.6%Peak (2015)
- 33Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 156Total filings 2020-21
- 2.0Avg monthly (observed)
- 2.6Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.79×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 Edgewood. 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.
- 15.8%Housing insecurity
- 9.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 18.5%Food insecurity
- 15.2%SNAP enrollment
- 9.5%Transit barriers
- 9.0%No health insurance
- 18.6%Frequent mental distress
- 27.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Edgewood
The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 7.5/10. It sits 1.1 points below the Providence County average of 5.7.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 71 filings here across 2 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2015 at 4.6% of renter households.
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 4.2% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 53rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 7.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 44% of renters. Average gross rent is $1,328, close to the Cranston average.
Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $71,143. 43% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
Frequently asked
About tract 44007013500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007013500?
Census tract 44007013500 in the Edgewood 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 44007013500?
Median gross rent is $1,328/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 44% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007013500?
13.5% of residents in tract 44007013500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,544.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007013500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 74th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 72th, household 50th, minority 61th, housing 78th.
Q5
Is tract 44007013500 considered part of Edgewood?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007013500 fall within Edgewood (neighborhood centroid within 0.1 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007013500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 71 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007013500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.16% of renter households, peaking at 4.6% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007013500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.79× 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 44007013500 struggle to pay rent?
About 15.8% 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. 9.3% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007013500 compare to Cranston overall?
Tract 44007013500 scores 4.6/10, 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 44007013500 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.
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/ 10 · Low
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