Dover Base Housing, DE population, income and ZIP codes

Dover Base Housing CDP is a small town in Delaware, with 3,026 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #31 of 79 ranked by population — larger than 61% of them. The median age here is 25.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Dover Base Housing CDP earn a median of $71,181 a year, 9.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 5% below the $75,000 median for the 54 Delaware cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 2.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dover Base Housing CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,953 a month, 38.9% above the national figure, or roughly $23,436 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 32.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 25.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for Dover Base Housing CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.