Neighborhood · Ranked #32,842 of 84,120 nationally
Woodlawn Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pawtucket
Tract 44007016500 ·
Providence County, RI · pop 3,856 · neighborhood within 0.6 mi
Tract 44007016500 sits in the Woodlawn area of Pawtucket eviction risk, RI, carrying an eviction-risk score of 5/10. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 15%Stable renters 23%Owners 62%
Tract context
Occupied units1,843
Renter share38.0%
SVI overall0.34
Poverty rate9.4%
Median income$103,519
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0th percentile
#8 of 8 tracts In Woodlawn
Very Low
Within parent city
20th percentile
#17 of 21 tracts In Pawtucket
Low
Within county
40th percentile
#87 of 145 tracts In Providence County
Moderate
Within state
51th percentile
#122 of 247 tracts In Rhode Island
Moderate
Geographic context
Risk heat across Pawtucket and the region
Centroid at 41.8608, -71.3901 · click any tract to drill in
Why Woodlawn scores 5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Pawtucket
6.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
9.4% poverty · this tract
2.3
Supply constraint
$1,383 rent vs county FMR
3.6
Rent control risk
Inherited from Pawtucket
4.5
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Pawtucket
5.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Pawtucket
6.0
How Woodlawn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 34
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
27%Socioeconomic
42%Household composition
26%Racial/ethnic minority
50%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.
100%Grade A
8%Grade B
8%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)
52Total filings over 2 yrs
3.34%Avg annual filing rate
4.1%Peak (2015)
18Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
124Total filings 2020-21
1.6Avg monthly (observed)
2.2Pre-pandemic baseline
0.74×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.
10.9%Housing insecurity
7.0%Utility-shutoff threat
11.5%Food insecurity
9.9%SNAP enrollment
6.5%Transit barriers
5.4%No health insurance
15.4%Frequent mental distress
24.5%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Woodlawn
Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 2.3/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 52 filings here across 2 tracked years.
At $1,383 a month, rents run 14% over what the rest of Pawtucket commands. Against Providence County at 43.2%, 39% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Against the Providence County average of 5.7, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.7 points. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.1% of renter households were served. This ground was mapped A ("Best") 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 3.3% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 61% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4/10.
Against average income of $103,519, annual rent is just 16%. 38% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
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 44007016500
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007016500?
Census tract 44007016500 in the Woodlawn neighborhood scores 5/10 (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 44007016500?
Median gross rent is $1,383/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 39% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007016500?
9.4% of residents in tract 44007016500 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,856.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007016500?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 34th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 27th, household 42th, minority 26th, housing 50th.
Q5
Is tract 44007016500 considered part of Woodlawn?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007016500 fall within Woodlawn (neighborhood centroid within 0.6 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007016500?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 52 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007016500 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 3.34% of renter households, peaking at 4.1% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007016500 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.74× 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 44007016500 struggle to pay rent?
About 10.9% 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. 7.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007016500 compare to Pawtucket overall?
Tract 44007016500 scores 5/10, lower than the parent city of Pawtucket at 5.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Pawtucket eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 44007016500 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.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in Pawtucket
Top eight tracts in Pawtucket ranked by composite eviction-risk score.