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Place dossier plate
SheetDE-LITTLE-CREEK-DE ยท Little Creek, DE 231 pop ยท income 50th 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 Little Creek
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Little Creek on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Briarcliff ยท lowest
51,000
Briarcliff ยท lowest
51,000 median HH income
36.3% of the leader ยท rank #1
Little Creek ยท this city
70,179
Little Creek ยท this city
70,179 median HH income
49.9% of the leader ยท rank #2
Mountain Viewโฆ ยท near
70,179
Mountain Viewโฆ ยท near
70,179 median HH income
49.9% of the leader ยท rank #3
Webb ยท near
70,179
Webb ยท near
70,179 median HH income
49.9% of the leader ยท rank #4
Bronaugh ยท near
70,179
Bronaugh ยท near
70,179 median HH income
49.9% of the leader ยท rank #5
Cooperstown ยท near
70,179
Cooperstown ยท near
70,179 median HH income
49.9% of the leader ยท rank #6
Cooper Landing ยท highest
140,500
Cooper Landing ยท highest
140,500 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท 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 Little Creek 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: 231.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Little Creek lands in the 50th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
50th
percentile, household income
36th
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
๐ 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: Little Creek, DE
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 231 residents in Little Creek, a small town within Delaware. Little Creek households earn a median of $70,179 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 24.6%. Little Creek's housing stock carries a median value of $178,600, and the median resident age is 41.5 years. Educational attainment runs 17.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Delaware tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Delaware scores 99.8 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,560 per month. 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 Little Creek'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 housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Little Creek, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Little Creek?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Little Creek?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 24.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Little Creek growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +10 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.3% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Which cities make useful reference points for Little Creek?
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.
Within Delaware, the closest population matches are Magnolia (237 residents, $116,667 income); Farmington (218 residents); Ardentown (269 residents, $81,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cooper Landing, AK (231 residents); Briarcliff, AR (231 residents); Bear Creek, CA (231 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.
Below median income ยท poverty 24.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
99.8 (US=100)
Above-average cost ยท BEA RPP 2024, Delaware average
F
City profile score ยท Little Creek, DE
33/100
4 published dimensions ยท 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.
Household income C-
$70,179
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop โฅ1,000); ACS.
Cost of living D
99.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 โ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
24.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Little Creek profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 50/100 (C-) ยท $70,179
Cost of living: 41/100 (D) ยท 99.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) ยท 17.8%
Poverty rate: 7/100 (F) ยท 24.6%
How does Little Creek compare to other US cities?
Here's how Little Creek stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income50% higher than other cities
Home value36% pricier 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 Little Creek 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 Little Creek near the bottom of Delaware's cities
Among the 79 Delaware cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Little Creek ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Little Creek only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#55 of 77
29th percentile in Delaware
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 79
0th percentile in Delaware
Median Home Value
#74 of 77
4th percentile in Delaware
Poverty Rate
#2 of 79
97th percentile in Delaware
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#61 of 79
23rd 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
50th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Little Creek's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$178,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 64% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates ยท 2023
Little Creek's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5ร
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0ร
National rank
#4,228 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,795 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5ร, Little Creek sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,228 of 15,516 and #3,795 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value รท median household income for cities with both fields and population โฅ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0โ5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$70,179Little Creek, DE median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Little Creek, 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 Little Creek, DE.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)24.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
231
Median Income
$70,179
Median Home Value
$178,600
Median Age
41.5
Poverty Rate
24.6%
Labor force participation
55.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.8%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020โ2025
Little Creek's Census PEP population estimates, 2020โ2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
189 residents
2021
190 residents
2022
194 residents
2023
196 residents
2024
198 residents
2025
199 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.6%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
9.2%
Other
2.1%
Based on 98 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 Little Creek. 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 Little Creek 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 Little Creek sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Little Creek 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.