ZIP code 19979

ZIP 19979 is a very small community in Kent County, Delaware, with 503 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #57 of 68 ranked by population — larger than 16% of them. The median age here is 39.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 19979 earn a median of $95,325 a year, 21.4% above the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 9.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 19979 is valued at $265,600, 12.5% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,708 a month, 21.5% above the national figure, or roughly $20,496 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.5% 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 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 82% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 503 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 19979 against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 19979 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 19979 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 19979 reports a median household income of $95,325, 23% above the $77,790 county median, and 20% above the $79,698 typical DE ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $265,600, 6% below the county figure and 10% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,708 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 19979.

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 19979 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.