Delaware cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Delaware, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Wilmington city".

The largest place in Delaware is Wilmington city with 71,124 residents, and the 79 places on this page hold 435,168 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $40,341 to $172,695, and median home values range from $140,900 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Population in Delaware is tightly clustered: the ten largest places carry 59% of the 435,168 residents counted across all 79. Wilmington city sets the pace and everything outside the top ten is genuinely small, so statewide averages describe the cluster rather than the state. The median row holds just 2,059 residents. At that scale margins of error widen sharply, and a single large household or seasonal population can shift a median.

On housing, Delaware tracks the national pattern closely: $280,200 median home value against $77,176 median income, a ratio of 3.6 versus 3.9 nationally. Median gross rent runs $1,315 including utilities, or about 20% of median household income annually. The statewide midpoint hides real variation, though — that is what the spread below is for.

The internal range is wide but not exceptional: $125,125 at the ninetieth percentile against $55,269 at the tenth, a 2.26× gap. At the edges, Hockessin CDP tops the list at $172,695 and Rodney Village CDP anchors the bottom at $40,341.

Coverage is close to complete: only 2 of 79 rows show a blank where the Census suppressed an estimate for sample-size reasons. The rest are published five-year values, averaged over sixty months of responses.

How many places does Delaware have? 79 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. The legal suffix in each name is the Census description, which is how two communities can share a name.

Which Delaware row should I compare mine against? Not the state median — it is pulled by the Delaware core. Compare against places in the same population band, which for most of this list means the entries below the top ten.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.