Sherwood Eviction Risk: Moderate , Dover

Severe burden reaches 36%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. It sits 1.4 points above the Kent County average of 4.0.

The poverty rate is 24%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.5/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.5/10.

Average gross rent is $1,116, 17% below the Dover average. Court records carry 1,383 eviction filings across 9 observed years.

Housing insecurity runs 21.9% against 14.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Filings peaked in 2015 at 26.4% of renter households.

In a typical year about 18.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 70% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the DE average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.

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.