Within parent city
50
th percentile
Moderate
Census Tract · Ranked #61,558 of 84,120 nationally
Lincoln Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 10005050105 · Sussex County, DE · pop 5,956 · 16% of tract blocks fall in Lincoln
Tract 10005050105 sits in Lincoln eviction risk, DE, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.3/10. The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.1/10.
Risk score
3.3
Lower
Confidence 85% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 6%
Stable renters 10%
Owners 84%
Tract context
Occupied units2,112
Renter share15.9%
SVI overall0.63
Poverty rate10.0%
Median income$67,955
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within county
47
th percentile
Moderate
Within state
38
th percentile
Low
National
27
th percentile
Low
Geographic context
Risk heat across Lincoln and the region
Centroid at 38.8575, -75.3949 · click any tract to drill in
Why Lincoln scores 3.3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Lincoln
5.0
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
4.4
State political climate
Delaware legislature & governorship
3.2
Economic stress
10.0% poverty · this tract
2.5
Supply constraint
tract rent vs county FMR
5.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from Lincoln
2.2
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
2.6
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Lincoln
3.3
Housing court bias
Inherited from Lincoln
3.2
How Lincoln compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 63
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 45%Socioeconomic
- 90%Household composition
- 61%Racial/ethnic minority
- 50%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
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)
- 557Total filings over 6 yrs
- 23.09%Avg annual filing rate
- 30.3%Peak (2014)
- 66Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 42% over the past 6 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 14.8%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 19.0%Food insecurity
- 16.0%SNAP enrollment
- 9.6%Transit barriers
- 12.7%No health insurance
- 16.8%Frequent mental distress
- 32.6%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Lincoln
On the softer side, rent-regulation exposure reads 2.2/10. Against Sussex County at 42.5%, 37% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, economic stress reads 2.5/10.
The filing record is not thin: 557 evictions over 6 years of observation. It sits 0.7 points below the Sussex County average of 4.0. Filings peaked in 2014 at 30.3% of renter households.
In a typical year about 23.1% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #61,558 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 16% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 10005050105
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 10005050105?
Census tract 10005050105 in Lincoln scores 3.3/10 (Lower tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the poverty rate in tract 10005050105?
10.0% of residents in tract 10005050105 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,956.
Q3
How socially vulnerable is tract 10005050105?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 63th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 45th, household 90th, minority 61th, housing 50th.
Q4
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 10005050105?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 557 eviction filings across 6 validated years in tract 10005050105 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 23.09% of renter households, peaking at 30.3% in 2014. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q5
What share of households in tract 10005050105 struggle to pay rent?
About 14.8% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q6
How does tract 10005050105 compare to Lincoln overall?
Tract 10005050105 scores 3.3/10, right in line with the parent city of Lincoln at 3.2/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Lincoln eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
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