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Slaughter Beach town, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Slaughter Beach town is a Census town of 408 people across 1.42 square miles of land, in Sussex County. Median household income is $109,375, 97.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Slaughter Beach
What Slaughter Beach is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.42 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land287 plus or minus 143
- 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.
Slaughter Beach
How many people live in Slaughter Beach
- Population408 plus or minus 203
- Median age68.0
- Population under 1812 plus or minus 18
- Share under 182.9 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Population 65 and over233 plus or minus 107
- Share 65 and over57.1 percent plus or minus 38.6
- Households230 plus or minus 110
- Family households144 plus or minus 94
- Share of households that are families62.6 percent plus or minus 27.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Slaughter Beach
Income and work in Slaughter Beach
- Median household income$109,375 plus or minus $106,896
- Per capita income$81,921 plus or minus $22,202
- Civilian labor force181 plus or minus 135
- Employed176 plus or minus 135
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 5
- Unemployment rate2.8 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over350 plus or minus 151
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.0 percent plus or minus 59.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher56.0 percent plus or minus 30.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree16.3 percent plus or minus 9.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Slaughter Beach
Housing in Slaughter Beach
- Housing units382 plus or minus 104
- Occupied units230 plus or minus 110
- Vacant units152 plus or minus 63
- Vacancy rate39.8 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Owner occupied225 plus or minus 111
- Renter occupied5 plus or minus 6
- Ownership rate97.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$757,400 plus or minus $161,879
- Single family units380 plus or minus 106
- Share single family99.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2 plus or minus 14
- Share in buildings of two or more0.5 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1968
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Slaughter Beach
How Slaughter Beach gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute120 plus or minus 99
- Commuting under 15 minutes8 plus or minus 16
- Share commuting under 15 minutes6.7 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more96 plus or minus 94
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more80.0 percent plus or minus 42.3
- Drove alone64.0 percent plus or minus 27.6
- Carpooled4.6 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home31.4 percent plus or minus 17.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sussex County, not Slaughter Beach
Sussex County context, not Slaughter 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 Slaughter 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 Slaughter 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.
- 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
Slaughter Beach questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Slaughter Beach, Delaware?
408, in 230 households. Slaughter Beach town covers 1.42 square miles of land, which is 287 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Slaughter 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 Slaughter Beach?
$109,375. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $757,400. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Slaughter 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 Slaughter Beach.
Is zoning published for Slaughter Beach?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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