Middletown

City Commute Profile

Middletown, DE

Where Middletown’s 11,255 resident workers go each day — 14.8% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Wilmington.

DelawareLODES 2023 data
44
Commute Score

44 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Middletown at a glance
Employed Residents
11,255
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
22.4mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
14.8%
Share working within the area
Work from home
18.9%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Wilmington
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Middletown proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Middletown commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Middletown

11,255 commutes, one dot at a time

Middletown

Where 11,255 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Middletown, by worker count.

1Middletown0.0 mi1,669
2Wilmington22.4 mi877
3New Castle16.8 mi503
4Dover22.4 mi417
5Philadelphia48.5 mi363
6Newark15.9 mi319
7Smyrna12.4 mi186
8Glasgow10.5 mi170

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Middletown.

1Middletown0.0 mi1,669
2Dover22.4 mi381
3Smyrna12.4 mi343
4Wilmington22.4 mi254
5Bear11.7 mi216
6Townsend3.8 mi199
7Glasgow10.5 mi179
8Newark15.9 mi157

Top industries

The sectors that employ Middletown’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
RTRetail Trade16.2%
AFAccommodation and Food Services15.6%
EDEducational Services15.1%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance12.5%
MFManufacturing8.7%
OSOther Services (except Public Administration)5.8%
COConstruction5.1%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.0%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services3.8%

Middletown city profile

Who lives in Middletown — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
24,661
Median age
38.7yrs
Median household income
$112,831
Median home value
$409,600
Median gross rent
$1,583/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
44.0%
Poverty rate
8.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Middletown

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

3 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps92%
5 Gbps
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Middletown

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).