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Bethany Beach town, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Bethany Beach town is a Census town of 905 people across 1.15 square miles of land, in Sussex County. Median household income is $117,159, 93.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $930,000.
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Bethany Beach
What Bethany Beach is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.15 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land788
- County holding the largest share of its areaSussex 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.
Bethany Beach
How many people live in Bethany Beach
- Population905
- Median age66.3
- Population under 1839 plus or minus 23
- Share under 184.3 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Population 65 and over488
- Share 65 and over53.9 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Households461
- Family households291
- Share of households that are families63.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethany Beach
Income and work in Bethany Beach
- Median household income$117,159
- Per capita income$100,979 plus or minus $22,527
- Civilian labor force348 plus or minus 77
- Employed342 plus or minus 73
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 9
- Unemployment rate1.7 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Adults 25 and over811
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher66.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree26.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethany Beach
Housing in Bethany Beach
- Housing units2,605
- Occupied units461
- Vacant units2,144
- Vacancy rate82.3 percent
- Owner occupied432
- Renter occupied29 plus or minus 19
- Ownership rate93.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$720,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,375 plus or minus $705
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.1 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Single family units2,528
- Share single family97.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more77 plus or minus 38
- Share in buildings of two or more3.0 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethany Beach
How Bethany Beach gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute221 plus or minus 65
- Commuting under 15 minutes96 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting under 15 minutes43.4 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more39 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.6 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Drove alone49.1 percent
- Carpooled2.6 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Public transport0.9 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Walked6.4 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Worked from home35.4 percent plus or minus 7.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethany Beach
SBA loans in Bethany Beach (7(a))
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$930,000
- Average approval$103,333
- Median approval$80,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$250,000
- Largest approval$250,000
- Jobs supported46
- Jobs per approval5.1
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full3
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises11.1 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Sussex County, not Bethany Beach
Sussex County context, not Bethany Beach figures
These are Sussex County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bethany Beach measurements.
- Establishments in Sussex County6,411
- Employment at those establishments, Sussex County78,541
- Covered employment, Sussex County94,273
- Average annual pay, Sussex County$55,078
- Average weekly wage, Sussex County$1,059
- Housing units permitted, Sussex County4,354
- Of those, single family, Sussex County3,816
- County product, 2024, Sussex County$23,355,694,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sussex County9.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sussex County$127,341
Every figure in this section is published for Sussex County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bethany Beach. 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
Bethany Beach questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bethany Beach, Delaware?
905, in 461 households. Bethany Beach town covers 1.15 square miles of land, which is 788 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bethany Beach in?
Sussex 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 Bethany Beach?
$117,159. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $720,900. Median gross rent is $1,375 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bethany Beach businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $930,000, across 7 lenders, median approval $80,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bethany Beach, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bethany Beach borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bethany Beach. only 4 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 Bethany Beach figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sussex 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 Bethany Beach.
Is zoning published for Bethany Beach?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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