Rocky Brook Eviction Risk: Moderate , Wakefield-Peace Dale
Tract 44009051201 · Washington County, RI · pop 5,157 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
44009051201 is a census tract in the Rocky Brook area of Wakefield-Peace Dale, RI. It scores 4/10 for landlords. 43% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Wakefield-Peace Dale and the region
Centroid at 41.4518, -71.5084 · click any tract to drill in
Why Rocky Brook scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Rocky Brook compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 22
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 26%Socioeconomic
- 23%Household composition
- 24%Racial/ethnic minority
- 33%Housing & transportation
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)
- 48Total filings over 2 yrs
- 4.74%Avg annual filing rate
- 7.1%Peak (2015)
- 13Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Rocky Brook. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 7.8%Housing insecurity
- 5.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 9.0%Food insecurity
- 8.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.6%Transit barriers
- 4.7%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 23.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Rocky Brook
55% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Washington County average of 40.2%. The main counterweight is economic stress at 2.4/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.4/10.
Food insecurity runs 9.0% against 17.8% nationally. Court records carry 48 eviction filings across 2 observed years. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 6.9/10.
Filings peaked in 2015 at 7.1% of renter households. In a typical year about 4.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #48,956 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 22% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $123,646, annual rent is just 11%.
Statewide the RI average is 5.3, so this tract runs 1.3 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
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.
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