Stonefield Eviction Risk: Lower , Middletown

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.4/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. The severe-burden share is 21%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

At $2,023 a month, rents run 28% over what the rest of Middletown commands. Against the New Castle County average of 4.2, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.2 points.

On the high side, local political climate reads 7.2/10. SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 9.6% against 17.8% nationally.

The voucher gap is 12.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

At 6% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 2/10. Against average income of $140,819, annual rent is just 17%.

Statewide the DE average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

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.