ZIP code 19954

ZIP 19954 is a small town in Kent County, Delaware, with 1,728 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #52 of 68 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 37.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 ZIP 19954 earn a median of $61,823 a year, 21.3% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 15.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 19954 is valued at $283,800, 6.5% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,205 a month, 14.3% below the national figure, or roughly $14,460 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 73.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 19954 is tabulated inside Kent County, Delaware, one of 17 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 68 across Delaware. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 19954 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 19954 reports a median household income of $61,823, 21% below the $77,790 county median, and 22% below the $79,698 typical DE ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $283,800, close to the county figure and 4% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,205 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Delaware charges 0% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 19954.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 19954 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.