Neighborhood · Ranked #29,336 of 84,120 nationally

Darlington Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pawtucket

Tract 44007016800 · Providence County, RI · pop 3,235 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi

Census tract 44007016800 covers part of the Darlington area of Pawtucket, RI, and scores 5.2/10 on landlord eviction risk. Severe burden reaches 33%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

5.2

Moderate

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 8% Stable renters 16% Owners 76%

Tract context

Occupied units1,234

Renter share24.1%

SVI overall0.41

Poverty rate8.4%

Median income$90,776

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Pawtucket and the region

Centroid at 41.8749, -71.3596 · click any tract to drill in

Why Darlington scores 5.2

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

8.4% poverty · this tract

2.1

Supply constraint

$1,160 rent vs county FMR

2.2

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 Darlington compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 41

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

46%Socioeconomic
77%Household composition
40%Racial/ethnic minority
17%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.

35%Grade A
64%Grade B
1%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)

39Total filings over 2 yrs
4.44%Avg annual filing rate
4.4%Peak (2016)
20Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

73Total filings 2020-21
1.0Avg monthly (observed)
1.1Pre-pandemic baseline
0.90×Ratio to baseline

Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01

Pandemic filings ran below baseline. Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Darlington. 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.

15.6%Housing insecurity
9.0%Utility-shutoff threat
17.2%Food insecurity
14.5%SNAP enrollment
8.7%Transit barriers
8.9%No health insurance
18.5%Frequent mental distress
30.0%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Darlington

33% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Providence County average of 43.2%. The clearest offset is economic stress at 2.1/10.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 39 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Filings peaked in 2016 at 4.4% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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 4.4% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 65% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 24% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $90,776, annual rent is just 15%.

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 44007016800

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007016800?

Census tract 44007016800 in the Darlington neighborhood scores 5.2/10 (Moderate tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 44007016800?

Median gross rent is $1,160/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 33% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 44007016800?

8.4% of residents in tract 44007016800 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,235.

How socially vulnerable is tract 44007016800?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 41th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 77th, minority 40th, housing 17th.

Is tract 44007016800 considered part of Darlington?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007016800 fall within Darlington (neighborhood centroid within 0.7 miles, OSM data).

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007016800?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 39 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007016800 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 4.44% of renter households, peaking at 4.4% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.

Did eviction filings in tract 44007016800 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.90× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings ran modestly below normal. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Portland, OR), 2020-2021.

What share of households in tract 44007016800 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.6% 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. 9.0% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 44007016800 compare to Pawtucket overall?

Tract 44007016800 scores 5.2/10, 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 44007016800 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 Pawtucket

Top eight tracts in Pawtucket ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

Eviction Lab tract-level court records (2000-2018) and Eviction Tracking System, Princeton University. Open Data Commons Attribution license. evictionlab.org