Delaware City - St. Georges is a very small town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 3,373 people and just one neighborhood, Delaware City - St. Georges is the 18th largest community in Delaware.
Delaware City - St. Georges is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Delaware City - St. Georges is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Delaware City - St. Georges who work in office and administrative support (17.10%), business and financial occupations (8.73%), and healthcare (6.68%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.81% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One downside of living in Delaware City - St. Georges is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Delaware City - St. Georges, the average commute to work is 30.94 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The citizens of Delaware City - St. Georges are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.80% of adults in Delaware City - St. Georges having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Delaware City - St. Georges in 2022 was $40,600, which is middle income relative to Delaware, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $162,400 for a family of four. However, Delaware City - St. Georges contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Delaware City - St. Georges is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Delaware City - St. Georges home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Delaware City - St. Georges residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Delaware City - St. Georges also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.09% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Delaware City - St. Georges include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Delaware City - St. Georges is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Delaware City - St. Georges are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.0%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.0%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Delaware City - St. Georges, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (13.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.