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Bethel town, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Bethel town is a Census town of 375 people across 0.44 square miles of land, in Sussex County. Median household income is $99,375, 98.2 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Bethel through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 375 with a margin of error of plus or minus 202, which is 53.9 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Bethel
What Bethel is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.44 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land851 plus or minus 459
- 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.
Bethel
How many people live in Bethel
- Population375 plus or minus 202
- Median age54.5 plus or minus 11.0
- Population under 1859 plus or minus 41
- Share under 1815.7 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Population 65 and over85 plus or minus 48
- Share 65 and over22.7 percent
- Households166 plus or minus 94
- Family households115 plus or minus 81
- Share of households that are families69.3 percent plus or minus 29.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethel
Income and work in Bethel
- Median household income$99,375 plus or minus $30,701
- Per capita income$45,763 plus or minus $9,444
- Civilian labor force145 plus or minus 82
- Employed135 plus or minus 77
- Unemployed10 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate6.9 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Adults 25 and over301 plus or minus 162
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.0 percent plus or minus 65.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher35.5 percent plus or minus 18.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.6 percent plus or minus 6.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethel
Housing in Bethel
- Housing units176 plus or minus 94
- Occupied units166 plus or minus 94
- Vacant units10 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate5.7 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Owner occupied163 plus or minus 94
- Renter occupied3 plus or minus 9
- Ownership rate98.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$294,700
- Single family units172 plus or minus 95
- Share single family97.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1950
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bethel
How Bethel gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute133 plus or minus 78
- Commuting under 15 minutes25 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.8 percent plus or minus 16.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more45 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.8 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Drove alone84.4 percent plus or minus 68.1
- Carpooled7.4 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.7 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Worked from home1.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sussex County, not Bethel
Sussex County context, not Bethel 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 Bethel 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 Bethel. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Bethel questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bethel, Delaware?
375, in 166 households. Bethel town covers 0.44 square miles of land, which is 851 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bethel 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 Bethel?
$99,375. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $294,700. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Bethel 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 Bethel.
Is zoning published for Bethel?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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