Hamlet Eviction Risk: Elevated , Woonsocket

SNAP participation runs 38.0% against 15.2% nationally. The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. It sits 2.2 points above the Providence County average of 5.7.

83% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $34,375, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

The poverty rate is 32%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.6/10. Cost burden runs 52% here against 43.2% across Providence County.

Housing insecurity runs 27.1% against 14.2% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 199 evictions over 2 years of observation. The worst year on record was 2016, when 8.8% of renter households were served.

At $1,065 a month, rents run 8% under what the rest of Woonsocket commands.

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.