Wilmington Eviction Risk: Moderate

At $738 a month, rents run 47% under what the rest of Wilmington commands. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10.

Cost burden runs 59% here against 48.2% across New Hanover County. The poverty rate is 31%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Food insecurity runs 31.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Against the New Hanover County average of 4.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.4 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 8/10.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 18.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Court records carry 1,228 eviction filings across 12 observed years.

The worst year on record was 2007, when 20.4% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 17.6% of renter households face a filing.

Nationally it ranks #24,859 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

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.