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Dagsboro town, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Dagsboro town is a Census town of 1,376 people across 1.44 square miles of land, in Sussex County. Median household income is $60,607, 84.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 13 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.4 m.
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Dagsboro
What Dagsboro is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.44 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land957 plus or minus 302
- 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.
Dagsboro
How many people live in Dagsboro
- Population1,376 plus or minus 434
- Median age42.3 plus or minus 20.4
- Population under 18262 plus or minus 137
- Share under 1819.0 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Population 65 and over434 plus or minus 167
- Share 65 and over31.5 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Households555 plus or minus 179
- Family households323 plus or minus 96
- Share of households that are families58.2 percent plus or minus 25.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dagsboro
Income and work in Dagsboro
- Median household income$60,607 plus or minus $15,665
- Per capita income$30,927
- Civilian labor force696 plus or minus 244
- Employed658 plus or minus 244
- Unemployed38 plus or minus 30
- Unemployment rate5.5 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over1,037 plus or minus 305
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.2 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.8 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dagsboro
Housing in Dagsboro
- Housing units582 plus or minus 186
- Occupied units555 plus or minus 179
- Vacant units27 plus or minus 21
- Vacancy rate4.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Owner occupied467 plus or minus 168
- Renter occupied88 plus or minus 51
- Ownership rate84.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$318,400 plus or minus $74,180
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,151
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.8 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Single family units465 plus or minus 166
- Share single family79.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more97 plus or minus 54
- Share in buildings of two or more16.7 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes20 plus or minus 26
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dagsboro
How Dagsboro gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute593 plus or minus 234
- Commuting under 15 minutes180 plus or minus 136
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.4 percent plus or minus 19.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more288 plus or minus 139
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.6 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Drove alone80.6 percent
- Carpooled12.3 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.6 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Worked from home6.5 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dagsboro
SBA loans in Dagsboro (7(a))
- Approvals13
- Gross approval$3,401,200
- Average approval$261,631
- Median approval$110,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$750,000
- Largest approval$756,000
- Jobs supported99
- Jobs per approval7.6
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Paid in full5
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS11
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 5 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 Dagsboro
Sussex County context, not Dagsboro 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 Dagsboro 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 Dagsboro. 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
Dagsboro questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dagsboro, Delaware?
1,376, in 555 households. Dagsboro town covers 1.44 square miles of land, which is 957 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dagsboro 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 Dagsboro?
$60,607. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $318,400. Median gross rent is $1,151 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Dagsboro businesses?
13 7(a) approvals totalling $3.4 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $110,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Dagsboro, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Dagsboro borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Dagsboro. only 5 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 Dagsboro 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 Dagsboro.
Is zoning published for Dagsboro?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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