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Neighborhood · Ranked #41,206 of 84,120 nationally

Darlington Eviction Risk: Moderate , Pawtucket

Tract 44007016900 · Providence County, RI · pop 1,827 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi

Census tract 44007016900 covers part of the Darlington area of Pawtucket, RI, and scores 4.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,827 residents. Cost burden runs 15% here against 43.2% across Providence County.

Risk score
4.5
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 3% Stable renters 18% Owners 79%
Tract context
Occupied units875
Renter share21.5%
SVI overall0.07
Poverty rate0.9%
Median income$107,784

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#11 of 11 tracts In Darlington
Very Low
Within parent city
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#21 of 21 tracts In Pawtucket
Very Low
Within county
31 th percentile
Rank, 31st percentileLowHigh
#101 of 145 tracts In Providence County
Low
Within state
41 th percentile
Rank, 41st percentileLowHigh
#147 of 247 tracts In Rhode Island
Moderate
Geographic context

Risk heat across Pawtucket and the region

Centroid at 41.8705, -71.3455 · click any tract to drill in

Why Darlington scores 4.5

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
0.9% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,138 rent vs county FMR
2.1
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.
Darlington risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 4.54.5This tracttract 016900Pawtucket: 5.95.9Pawtucketparent cityCounty: 5.75.7Countyavg tract in countyState: 5.35.3Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 7

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

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.

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)

  • 14Total filings over 2 yrs
  • 5.68%Avg annual filing rate
  • 4.8%Peak (2015)
  • 7Filings in 2016 (latest validated)

Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)

  • 26Total filings 2020-21
  • 0.3Avg monthly (observed)
  • 0.5Pre-pandemic baseline
  • 0.75×Ratio to baseline
Monthly filings 2020–2021 2020-01-01 to 2026-05-01
Monthly eviction filings vs pre-pandemic baseline2020-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-02-01: 1 filings (2.00× baseline)2020-03-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2020-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2020-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-01-01: 1 filings (2.00× baseline)2021-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-07-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2021-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-09-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2021-10-01: 1 filings (1.33× baseline)2021-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2021-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-05-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2022-06-01: 2 filings (2.67× baseline)2022-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-08-01: 2 filings (4.00× baseline)2022-09-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2022-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2022-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-02-01: 1 filings (2.00× baseline)2023-03-01: 2 filings (8.00× baseline)2023-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-07-01: 1 filings (1.00× baseline)2023-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-10-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2023-11-01: 2 filings (8.00× baseline)2023-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-05-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2024-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-08-01: 1 filings (2.00× baseline)2024-09-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2024-10-01: 2 filings (2.67× baseline)2024-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2024-12-01: 1 filings (4.00× baseline)2025-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-04-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-06-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-07-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-08-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-09-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-10-01: 1 filings (1.33× baseline)2025-11-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2025-12-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-01-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-02-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-03-01: 0 filings (0.00× baseline)2026-04-01: 1 filings (10.00× baseline)2026-05-01: 0 filings (0.00× 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 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.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Darlington

The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 2.1/10.

It sits 1.2 points below the Providence County average of 5.7. The severe-burden share is 12%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 7.5/10.

Court records carry 14 eviction filings across 2 observed years. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.8% of renter households were served. 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 5.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 51% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

Only 21% 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 1.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $107,784, annual rent is just 13%.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 1%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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 44007016900

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007016900?

Census tract 44007016900 in the Darlington neighborhood scores 4.5/10 (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 44007016900?

Median gross rent is $1,138/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 15% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 44007016900?

0.9% of residents in tract 44007016900 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 1,827.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 44007016900?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 7th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 22th, household 12th, minority 34th, housing 6th.
Q5

Is tract 44007016900 considered part of Darlington?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007016900 fall within Darlington (neighborhood centroid within 1.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007016900?

Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 14 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007016900 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.68% of renter households, peaking at 4.8% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7

Did eviction filings in tract 44007016900 drop during COVID?

Pandemic-era filings ran 0.75× 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 44007016900 struggle to pay rent?

About 10.7% 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. 6.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9

How does tract 44007016900 compare to Pawtucket overall?

Tract 44007016900 scores 4.5/10, 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 44007016900 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.

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