Georgetown Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 10005050503 · Sussex County, DE · pop 6,104 · 80% of tract blocks fall in Georgetown
10005050503 is a census tract in Georgetown, DE. It scores 6.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 6,104 residents. Cost burden runs 72% here against 42.5% across Sussex County.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Georgetown and the region
Centroid at 38.7247, -75.3872 · click any tract to drill in
Why Georgetown scores 6.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Georgetown compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 95
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 90%Socioeconomic
- 74%Household composition
- 86%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)
- 595Total filings over 6 yrs
- 11.28%Avg annual filing rate
- 14.2%Peak (2014)
- 89Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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.
- 31.1%Housing insecurity
- 20.5%Utility-shutoff threat
- 44.8%Food insecurity
- 41.6%SNAP enrollment
- 21.3%Transit barriers
- 35.4%No health insurance
- 20.6%Frequent mental distress
- 45.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Georgetown
Against the Sussex County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.9 points. SNAP participation runs 41.6% against 15.2% nationally.
Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Adults with no health insurance runs 35.4% against 11.3% nationally. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.1/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $45,774, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.
Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 595 filings here across 6 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 14.2% of renter households were served.
In a typical year about 11.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Highest-risk tracts in Georgetown
Top eight tracts in Georgetown ranked by composite eviction-risk score.