Bridgeville Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 10005050302 · Sussex County, DE · pop 5,470 · 3% of tract blocks fall in Bridgeville
With a score of 5.5/10, tract 10005050302 in Bridgeville in Sussex County ranks in the Moderate tier for landlord eviction risk. The tract is home to 5,470 residents. That is riskier than about 58% of US census tracts.
25% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a moderate level, and 10% are severely burdened at 50% or more. Average rent runs $858 a month against an average household income of $62,088 a year, roughly 17% of income at the averages. Renters make up 12% of occupied homes.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Bridgeville and the region
Centroid at 38.7829, -75.5401 · click any tract to drill in
Why Bridgeville scores 5.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Bridgeville compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 78
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 66%Socioeconomic
- 94%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 65%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)
- 735Total filings over 6 yrs
- 43.91%Avg annual filing rate
- 50.4%Peak (2016)
- 126Filings in 2017 (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.
- 15.8%Housing insecurity
- 10.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 21.5%Food insecurity
- 19.2%SNAP enrollment
- 10.7%Transit barriers
- 15.3%No health insurance
- 17.6%Frequent mental distress
- 35.2%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Bridgeville
The heaviest input here is tenant organizing strength at $1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Bridgeville 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 Sussex County average of 5.5 and in line with the Delaware statewide average of 5.6. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 78th 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.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 735 eviction filings here over 6 tracked years, with about 43.9% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 50.4% of renter households in 2016.
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 Bridgeville
Top eight tracts in Bridgeville ranked by composite eviction-risk score.