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Place dossier plate
SheetDE-DOVER-BASE-HOUSING-DE · Dover Base Housing, DE 3,026 pop · income 51st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Dover Base Housing
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dover Base Housing on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Walbridge · lowest
56,719
Walbridge · lowest
56,719 median HH income
37.1% of the leader · rank #1
Hopkins · near
71,170
Hopkins · near
71,170 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #2
Dellwood · near
71,171
Dellwood · near
71,171 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #3
Ashwaubenon · near
71,180
Ashwaubenon · near
71,180 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #4
Dover Base Ho… · this city
71,181
Dover Base Ho… · this city
71,181 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #5
Bird Island · near
71,190
Bird Island · near
71,190 median HH income
46.5% of the leader · rank #6
Townsend · highest
153,083
Townsend · highest
153,083 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Dover Base Housing on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 3,026.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Dover Base Housing lands in the 51st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
51st
percentile, household income
78th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Dover Base Housing, DE
3,026 people live in Dover Base Housing, Delaware - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Dover Base Housing report a median income of $71,181 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. The median resident age is 25.5 years. Educational attainment runs 45.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 29.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Delaware tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 99.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,560 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $243 across Delaware, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 91.3 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Dover Base Housing's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Dover Base Housing, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Dover Base Housing?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Dover Base Housing?
Within Delaware, the closest population matches are Selbyville (3,005 residents, $81,845 income); Greenville (3,100 residents, $139,541 income); Townsend (2,792 residents, $153,083 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sunset, LA (3,026 residents); New Palestine, IN (3,027 residents); Walbridge, OH (3,027 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Delaware average
C+
City profile score · Dover Base Housing, DE
61/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A-
45.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C-
$71,181
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living D
99.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Dover Base Housing profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 80/100 (A-) · 45.1%
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Household income: 51/100 (C-) · $71,181
Cost of living: 41/100 (D) · 99.8 index
How does Dover Base Housing compare to other US cities?
Dover Base Housing measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income51% higher than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Dover Base Housing against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Delaware only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Delaware-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Dover Base Housing near the bottom of Delaware's cities
Among the 79 Delaware cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dover Base Housing ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dover Base Housing only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#52 of 77
32nd percentile in Delaware
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 79
0th percentile in Delaware
Poverty Rate
#55 of 79
29th percentile in Delaware
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#20 of 79
75th percentile in Delaware
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Delaware only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
51st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$71,181Dover Base Housing, DE median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dover Base Housing, DE median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Dover Base Housing, DE.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)29.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,026
Median Income
$71,181
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
25.5
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
29.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.1%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.8%
Carpool
14.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
2.6%
Based on 1,465 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Delaware statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $243
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Delaware at $243 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Delaware statewide averages, not a meter reading for Dover Base Housing. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Delaware's BEA cost-of-living index is 99.8 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Dover Base Housing is $1,560/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Delaware statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 91.3 / 100 (Very High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Delaware statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Dover Base Housing sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dover Base Housing compares to similar-size Delaware cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.