Georgetown Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against the Sussex County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.9 points. SNAP participation runs 41.6% against 15.2% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 34%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Adults with no health insurance runs 35.4% against 11.3% nationally. The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.

On the high side, court filing pressure reads 9.1/10. Annualized rent equals 38% of average household income of $45,774, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.7/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 595 filings here across 6 tracked years. The worst year on record was 2014, when 14.2% of renter households were served.

In a typical year about 11.3% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.