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Cheswold town, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Cheswold town is a Census town of 2,143 people across 1.84 square miles of land, in Kent County. Median household income is $86,875, 94.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $75,000.
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Cheswold
What Cheswold is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.84 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,166
- County holding the largest share of its areaKent County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cheswold
How many people live in Cheswold
- Population2,143
- Median age45.6
- Population under 18352 plus or minus 89
- Share under 1816.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Population 65 and over506
- Share 65 and over23.6 percent
- Households780
- Family households599
- Share of households that are families76.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Cheswold
- Median household income$86,875 plus or minus $26,988
- Per capita income$37,765
- Civilian labor force1,105
- Employed1,025
- Unemployed80 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate7.2 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over1,519
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.3 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Cheswold
- Housing units844
- Occupied units780
- Vacant units64 plus or minus 40
- Vacancy rate7.6 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Owner occupied738
- Renter occupied42 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate94.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$314,600 plus or minus $119,213
- Median gross rent, monthly$880 plus or minus $221
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.2 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Single family units475 plus or minus 97
- Share single family56.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes369 plus or minus 79
- Median year structure built2010
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Cheswold gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute793
- Commuting under 15 minutes224 plus or minus 95
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.2 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more364 plus or minus 111
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more45.9 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Drove alone63.4 percent
- Carpooled10.9 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Public transport1.4 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Walked4.7 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Worked from home18.5 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Cheswold (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$75,000
- Average approval$75,000
- Median approval$75,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$75,000
- Largest approval$75,000
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Kent County, not Cheswold
Kent County context, not Cheswold figures
These are Kent County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cheswold measurements.
- Establishments in Kent County4,971
- Employment at those establishments, Kent County61,078
- Covered employment, Kent County71,071
- Average annual pay, Kent County$57,464
- Average weekly wage, Kent County$1,105
- Housing units permitted, Kent County1,201
- Of those, single family, Kent County1,056
- County product, 2024, Kent County$11,652,246,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kent County8.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kent County$57,874
Every figure in this section is published for Kent County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cheswold. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Cheswold questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cheswold, Delaware?
2,143, in 780 households. Cheswold town covers 1.84 square miles of land, which is 1,166 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cheswold in?
Kent County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Cheswold?
$86,875. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $314,600. Median gross rent is $880 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cheswold businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $75,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $75,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cheswold, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cheswold borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cheswold. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Cheswold figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kent County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Cheswold.
Is zoning published for Cheswold?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.