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Place dossier plate
SheetOH-DELAWARE-OH · Delaware, OH 43,168 pop · income 73rd pct · 40 tracts
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 Delaware
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Delaware on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sumter · lowest
53,071
Sumter · lowest
53,071 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #1
Colerain · near
92,917
Colerain · near
92,917 median HH income
72.7% of the leader · rank #2
Mountville · near
92,917
Mountville · near
92,917 median HH income
72.7% of the leader · rank #3
Riegelsville · near
92,917
Riegelsville · near
92,917 median HH income
72.7% of the leader · rank #4
Lomita · near
92,920
Lomita · near
92,920 median HH income
72.7% of the leader · rank #5
Delaware · this city
92,928
Delaware · this city
92,928 median HH income
72.7% of the leader · rank #6
West Babylon · highest
127,785
West Babylon · highest
127,785 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Delaware on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 43,168.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Delaware - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Delaware places in the 73rd percentile for household income and the 58th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
73rd
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
22nd
percentile, median rent
58th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Delaware, OH
Delaware is a small city in Ohio, home to 43,168 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Delaware brings in $92,928 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.9%. Typical homes in Delaware are valued around $279,400, and the median resident age is 36.3 years. About 45.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 839 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Growing), up 13% from five years earlier. Delaware reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1136.5 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Ohio run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Ohio scores 92.8 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,092 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $228 across Ohio, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Delaware report an average commute of 22.0 minutes, with 73.4% driving alone and 15.7% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 55.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Delaware'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 reported crime to housing and income to within-city variation to population change to schools and households to 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 Delaware, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Delaware?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1136.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
How far does income reach against housing in Delaware?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
PlainCities matches 40 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Delaware?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Ohio, the closest population matches are Huber Heights (43,266 residents, $76,551 income); Grove City (41,831 residents, $90,888 income); Fairfield (44,597 residents, $70,166 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Schertz, TX (43,128 residents); North Miami Beach, FL (43,104 residents); West Babylon, NY (43,239 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.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Delaware growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,952 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 839 housing units authorized in 2024. 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.
2020 estimate
41,684
2025 estimate
46,636
Period change
+11.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 45.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
5.9%
Bachelor's degree+
45.6%
Matched public schools
13
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Delaware?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.0 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
73.4%
Work from home
15.7%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 22,742 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 5.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.8 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Ohio average
B-
City profile score · Delaware, OH
69/100
5 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-
45.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living B+
92.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income B
$92,928
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C
147 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Delaware profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 80/100 (A-) · 45.6%
Cost of living: 75/100 (B+) · 92.8 index
Household income: 72/100 (B) · $92,928
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.9%
Violent crime: 59/100 (C) · 147 /100k
Where Delaware sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Delaware's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Delaware highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Delaware, OH (this city): home $279,400, crime 1,137/100k
Schertz, TX : home $292,100, crime 1,041/100k
North Miami Beach, FL : home $317,800, crime 3,495/100k
Woonsocket, RI : home $268,000, crime 1,891/100k
Sumter, SC : home $188,400, crime 4,804/100k
Hollister, CA : home $679,300, crime 1,164/100k
Huber Heights, OH : home $161,900, crime 1,988/100k
Grove City, OH : home $283,300, crime 2,782/100k
Fairfield, OH : home $218,100, crime 1,659/100k
Cleveland Heights, OH : home $176,700, crime 1,551/100k
Reynoldsburg, OH : home $230,300, crime 2,878/100k
Lancaster, OH : home $180,200, crime 2,531/100k
How does Delaware compare to other US cities?
Here's how Delaware stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income73% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent22% pricier than other cities
Safety58% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Ohio alone, Delaware ranks #134 of 281 Ohio cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Delaware against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Ohio only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Ohio-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Delaware near the bottom of Ohio's cities
Among the 1,196 Ohio cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Delaware ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Delaware only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#197 of 1,145
83rd percentile in Ohio
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,196
0th percentile in Ohio
Median Home Value
#135 of 1,164
88th percentile in Ohio
Poverty Rate
#640 of 1,196
46th percentile in Ohio
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#132 of 1,196
89th percentile in Ohio
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 Ohio only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
73rd percentile nationally for median household income · 58th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Delaware's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Delaware's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Delaware's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$279,40039th percentilemore affordable than 39% 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 · 2023
Delaware's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,725 of 15,516
More affordable than 57% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#912 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Delaware sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,725 of 15,516 and #912 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$92,928Delaware, OH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Delaware, OH median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Delaware, OH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
43,168
Median Income
$92,928
Median Home Value
$279,400
Median Age
36.3
Poverty Rate
5.9%
Labor force participation
67.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1136.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
146.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
989.9
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Delaware's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
41,684 residents
2021
43,036 residents
2022
43,980 residents
2023
44,999 residents
2024
45,459 residents
2025
46,636 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
839
housing units authorized
Single-Family
535
detached homes
Multifamily
304
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
19.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
741
377
364
$137.7M
2020
453
389
64
$125.7M
2021
493
457
36
$158.5M
2022
457
453
4
$173.3M
2023
505
429
76
$165.5M
2024
839
535
304
$255.9M
Permit volume increased 13% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.0 minutes
Drive Alone
73.4%
Carpool
6.8%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
3.0%
Work from Home
15.7%
Other
0.8%
Based on 22,742 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Ohio statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $228
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Ohio at $228 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Ohio statewide averages, not a meter reading for Delaware. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Ohio's BEA cost-of-living index is 92.8 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Delaware is $1,092/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Ohio statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.0 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Ohio statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Delaware sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Delaware compares to similar-size Ohio 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.