Delaware Eviction Risk: Lower

Well under the midpoint is economic stress, at 1.3/10. Average gross rent is $1,235, 28% above the Springfield average of $964.

21% of renters here are cost-burdened at the 30% threshold, under the Springfield rate of 29.4%. The voucher gap is 23.8%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. On the softer side is tenant-organizing strength, at 2/10.

Court records for this tract carry 73 eviction filings. SNAP participation is 4.2% of households versus 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2011, when filings touched 3.4% of renter households.

5.0% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt. The most recent observed rate, 1.3% in 2017, is well off that peak. Among the 25 mapped neighborhoods of Springfield, it ranks #24 by risk, the lower third.

For a like-for-like read, Brentwood and Young-Lilly score within a fraction of it. Against average income of $75,260, annual rent is only 20%, a wide affordability cushion. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 3/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.