Delaware Eviction Risk: Moderate

Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.8/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.4/10. Food insecurity runs 7.8% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 5.6% against 15.2% nationally. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 186 filings here across 9 tracked years.

The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,455 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Delaware commands. It sits 0.7 points above the Delaware County average of 3.8.

The worst year on record was 2006, when 5.0% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 3.2% of renter households face a filing.

On the national scale it lands near the 51st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 17% of average household income of $100,246, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.