Dover Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 10001040502 · Kent County, DE · pop 2,647 · 41% of tract blocks fall in Dover
Tract 10001040502 covers Dover in Kent County in Delaware. Home to 2,647 residents, it scores 5.5/10 on landlord eviction risk. It lands near the 58th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 57% of renter households, a severe level, and 27% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average gross rent is $1,411 monthly, set against $90,227 in average yearly household income, roughly 19% of income at the averages. About 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Dover and the region
Centroid at 39.2211, -75.5325 · click any tract to drill in
Why Dover scores 4
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Dover compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 81
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 70%Socioeconomic
- 66%Household composition
- 68%Racial/ethnic minority
- 89%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)
- 568Total filings over 9 yrs
- 33.16%Avg annual filing rate
- 52.8%Peak (2010)
- 66Filings in 2018 (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.
- 13.6%Housing insecurity
- 8.2%Utility-shutoff threat
- 15.3%Food insecurity
- 13.2%SNAP enrollment
- 8.2%Transit barriers
- 9.7%No health insurance
- 16.6%Frequent mental distress
- 36.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Dover
The heaviest input here is supply constraint at 4.5/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Dover eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the Kent County average of 5.7 and in line with the Delaware statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the safer side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 13.6% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 8.2% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 81st percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in Dover
Top eight tracts in Dover ranked by composite eviction-risk score.