Within neighborhood
0
th percentile
Very Low
Neighborhood · Ranked #22,681 of 84,120 nationally
Bernon Heights Eviction Risk: Moderate , Woonsocket
Tract 44007017700 · Providence County, RI · pop 3,664 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
44007017700 is a census tract in the Bernon Heights area of Woonsocket, RI. It scores 5.6/10 for landlords. It is home to 3,664 residents. Against Providence County at 43.2%, 21% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Risk score
5.6
Moderate
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 71%
Tract context
Occupied units1,457
Renter share28.6%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate5.0%
Median income$83,763
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
0
th percentile
Very Low
Within county
49
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
61
th percentile
Elevated
Geographic context
Risk heat across Woonsocket and the region
Centroid at 41.9897, -71.5014 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bernon Heights scores 5.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Woonsocket
6.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
6.1
State political climate
Rhode Island legislature & governorship
5.5
Economic stress
5.0% poverty · this tract
1.2
Supply constraint
$1,098 rent vs county FMR
1.8
Rent control risk
Inherited from Woonsocket
6.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
4.9
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Woonsocket
9.7
Housing court bias
Inherited from Woonsocket
7.0
How Bernon Heights compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 48%Household composition
- 37%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 16%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 37%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)
- 51Total filings over 2 yrs
- 5.65%Avg annual filing rate
- 5.5%Peak (2016)
- 26Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Pandemic-era tracking (2020–2021)
- 89Total filings 2020-21
- 1.2Avg monthly (observed)
- 1.8Pre-pandemic baseline
- 0.65×Ratio to baseline
Pandemic filings ran far below baseline (moratorium effect). Eviction Lab tracked Portland, OR as part of its 34-metro Eviction Tracking System.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Bernon Heights. 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.
- 12.9%Housing insecurity
- 7.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 14.4%Food insecurity
- 12.2%SNAP enrollment
- 7.4%Transit barriers
- 6.9%No health insurance
- 17.7%Frequent mental distress
- 28.2%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Bernon Heights
The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.7/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.8/10.
13% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Court records carry 51 eviction filings across 2 observed years.
Filings peaked in 2016 at 5.5% of renter households. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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.
On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.6/10. Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $83,763, an unusually wide affordability cushion.
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 44007017700
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 44007017700?
Census tract 44007017700 in the Bernon Heights neighborhood scores 5.6/10 (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 44007017700?
Median gross rent is $1,098/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 21% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 44007017700?
5.0% of residents in tract 44007017700 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,664.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 44007017700?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 48th, minority 37th, housing 17th.
Q5
Is tract 44007017700 considered part of Bernon Heights?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 44007017700 fall within Bernon Heights (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 44007017700?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 51 eviction filings across 2 validated years in tract 44007017700 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 5.65% of renter households, peaking at 5.5% in 2016. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
Did eviction filings in tract 44007017700 drop during COVID?
Pandemic-era filings ran 0.65× the pre-COVID monthly baseline. Filings dropped sharply, likely a moratorium effect. Tracked by the Eviction Lab Eviction Tracking System (Portland, OR), 2020-2021.
Q8
What share of households in tract 44007017700 struggle to pay rent?
About 12.9% 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. 7.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q9
How does tract 44007017700 compare to Woonsocket overall?
Tract 44007017700 scores 5.6/10, lower than the parent city of Woonsocket at 6.5/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Woonsocket eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q10
Was tract 44007017700 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 37% 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 Woonsocket
Top eight tracts in Woonsocket ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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