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Blades town, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Blades town is a Census town of 1,071 people across 0.55 square miles of land, in Sussex County. Median household income is $56,875, 70.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Blades
What Blades is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.55 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,936 plus or minus 510
- 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.
Blades
How many people live in Blades
- Population1,071 plus or minus 282
- Median age36.6 plus or minus 8.0
- Population under 18236 plus or minus 121
- Share under 1822.0 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over185 plus or minus 54
- Share 65 and over17.3 percent
- Households372 plus or minus 81
- Family households274 plus or minus 69
- Share of households that are families73.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Blades
Income and work in Blades
- Median household income$56,875
- Per capita income$24,777
- Civilian labor force540 plus or minus 158
- Employed476 plus or minus 140
- Unemployed64 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate11.9 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Adults 25 and over735 plus or minus 190
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.0 percent plus or minus 30.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.0 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Blades
Housing in Blades
- Housing units415 plus or minus 89
- Occupied units372 plus or minus 81
- Vacant units43 plus or minus 34
- Vacancy rate10.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Owner occupied262 plus or minus 66
- Renter occupied110 plus or minus 49
- Ownership rate70.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$227,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,012
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.4 percent
- Single family units370 plus or minus 90
- Share single family89.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more41 plus or minus 32
- Share in buildings of two or more9.9 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Mobile homes4 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Blades
How Blades gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute472 plus or minus 140
- Commuting under 15 minutes141 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.9 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more200 plus or minus 82
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.4 percent plus or minus 12.0
- Drove alone89.9 percent plus or minus 37.1
- Carpooled8.6 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.8 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sussex County, not Blades
Sussex County context, not Blades 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 Blades 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 Blades. 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.
- 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
Blades questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Blades, Delaware?
1,071, in 372 households. Blades town covers 0.55 square miles of land, which is 1,936 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Blades 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 Blades?
$56,875. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $227,900. Median gross rent is $1,012 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Blades 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 Blades.
Is zoning published for Blades?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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