Lewes Eviction Risk: Lower

33% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.3/10.

Against Sussex County at 42.5%, 52% of renters here are cost-burdened. The voucher gap is 24.1%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears.

Running cool, economic stress reads 1.7/10. SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally.

It sits 1.0 points below the Sussex County average of 4.0. Housing insecurity runs 5.4% against 14.2% nationally. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the DE average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $82,072.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.