Sea Colony Eviction Risk: Lower , Bethany Beach

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10. Running cool, rent-regulation exposure reads 1.6/10.

Housing insecurity runs 3.4% against 14.2% nationally. It sits 1.0 points below the Sussex County average of 4.0.

Against Sussex County at 42.5%, 38% of renters here are cost-burdened. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 2 filings here across 2 tracked years.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2013, when 4.2% of renter households were served.

On the national scale it lands near the 20th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 2% 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 1.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Judgments average 2.1% of renter households a year, the share of filings that convert to an order. Statewide the DE average is 4.1, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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.