Peninsula Lakes Eviction Risk: Lower , Long Neck

The score leans hardest on court filing pressure at 9.1/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.3/10.

16% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. It sits 1.0 points below the Sussex County average of 4.0.

Food insecurity runs 8.8% against 17.8% nationally. Average gross rent is $877, 14% below the Long Neck average. Housing insecurity runs 6.5% against 14.2% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $59,529, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the DE average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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