Moving to Wilmington, Delaware

About Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington

Wilmington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain.

As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 70,898. Wilmington is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area (which also includes Philadelphia, Reading, Camden, and other urban areas), which had a population of 6.245 million residents in 2020 and is the seventh-largest metropolitan region in the nation, and a combined statistical area population of 7.366 million.

Gender
Gender Wilmington Delaware Country
Female 53.4% 51.7% 50.8%
Male 46.6% 48.3% 49.2%
Gender
Created with Raphaël 2.2.053%47%Female53.4%

 Female Male
Household Income
Created with Raphaël 2.2.012%7%11%12%12%16%11%10%5%5%$50K to $75K15.7%

 < $10000 $10K to $15K $15K to $25K $25K to $35K $35K to $50K $50K to $75K $75K to $100K $100K to $150K $150K to $200K $200K or more

Income Wilmington Delaware Country
Less than $10,000 12.2% 5.2% 5.8%
$10,000 to $14,999 6.7% 3.5% 4.1%
$15,000 to $24,999 10.9% 6.8% 8.5%
$25,000 to $34,999 12.3% 8.9% 8.6%
$35,000 to $49,999 12.1% 11.7% 12.0%
$50,000 to $74,999 15.7% 17.7% 17.2%
$75,000 to $99,999 10.5% 13.9% 12.8%
$100,000 to $149,999 9.7% 17% 15.6%
$150,000 to $199,999 4.8% 7.7% 7.1%
$200,000 or more 5.1% 7.6% 8.3%
Education
Created with Raphaël 2.2.01%9%38%16%6%17%8%3%2%High School or GED38%

 < 9th Grade 9-12th Grade High School or GED Other College Associate Degree Bachelor Degree Masters Degree Professional Degree Doctorate Degree

Education Wilmington Delaware Country
< 9th Grade 1% 3% 5.0%
9-12th Grade 9% 6% 7.0%
High School or GED 38% 31% 27.0%
Other College 16% 19% 20.0%
Associate's Degree 6% 8% 9%
Bachelor's Degree 17% 19% 20.0%
Master's Degree 8% 10% 9.0%
Professional Degree 3% 2% 2.0%
Doctorate Degree 2% 2% 1.0%
Household Income
 Wilmington Delaware  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.005101520>$200K$150K$200K$100K$150K$75K$100K$50K$75K$35K$50K$25K$35K$15K$25K$10K$15K<$10K12.25.25.86.73.54.110.96.88.512.38.98.612.111.71215.717.717.210.513.912.89.71715.64.87.77.15.17.68.3
Education
 Wilmington Delaware  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.0010203040Dr.DegreeProf.DegreeMastersDegreeBachelorDegreeAssociateDegreeOtherCollegeHighSchool9-12thGrade< 9thGrade1359673831271619206891719208109322221
Race / Ethnicity
Created with Raphaël 2.2.028%56%0%1%11%0%2%0%African American56.4%

 White African American American Indian Asian Hispanic Hawaiian Mixed Other

Ethnicity Wilmington Delaware Country
White 28.4% 61.5% 60.1%
African American 56.4% 21.5% 12.2%
American Indian 0.2% 0.3% 0.6%
Asian 1.3% 4% 5.6%
Hawaiian 0% 0% 0.2%
Other 0.3% 0.4% 0.3%
Multiracial 2.2% 2.9% 2.8%
Hispanic 11.2% 9.4% 18.2%
Race / Ethnicity
 Wilmington Delaware  Country
Created with Raphaël 2.2.0017.53552.570Hispanic2 or More$OthersHawaiianAsianAmericanIndianAfricanAmericanWhite28.461.560.156.421.512.20.20.30.61.345.6000.20.30.40.32.22.92.811.29.418.2