Trolley Square Eviction Risk: Lower , Wilmington

What pushes it up most is court filing pressure at 9.4/10. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1/10.

Food insecurity runs 6.0% against 17.8% nationally. At $1,449 a month, rents run 18% over what the rest of Wilmington commands. The filing record is not thin: 57 evictions over 9 years of observation.

Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 3/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2011, when 3.0% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 2.0% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #50,654 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 1.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the New Castle County average of 4.2 closely.

Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $87,155. 63% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.