Fox Hall Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dover
Tract 10001040700 · Kent County, DE · pop 5,417 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
The Fox Hall neighborhood of Dover is where census tract 10001040700 sits, home to 5,417 residents. Its landlord eviction-risk score is 5.5/10. That is riskier than roughly 58% of the 84,120 US census tracts we score.
53% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 38% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $1,118 a month against an average household income of $84,517 a year, roughly 16% of income at the averages. Renters make up 37% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Dover and the region
Centroid at 39.1746, -75.5639 · click any tract to drill in
Why Fox Hall scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Fox Hall compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 94
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 69%Racial/ethnic minority
- 97%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)
- 799Total filings over 9 yrs
- 14.82%Avg annual filing rate
- 24.0%Peak (2013)
- 30Filings in 2018 (latest validated)
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 11.9%Housing insecurity
- 7.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.4%Food insecurity
- 11.7%SNAP enrollment
- 7.5%Transit barriers
- 8.2%No health insurance
- 15.4%Frequent mental distress
- 34.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Fox Hall
The heaviest input here is eviction process difficulty at 3.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Dover eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Kent County average of 5.7 and in line with the Delaware statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
The tract is White and Black and ranks around the 94th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
In CDC survey modeling, about 11.9% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 7.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 10001040700
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