Cheswold is a very small town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 2,257 people and just one neighborhood, Cheswold is the 26th largest community in Delaware. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Cheswold, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Cheswold, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Cheswold’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Cheswold does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $75,000.00.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cheswold is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cheswold is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cheswold who work in office and administrative support (15.54%), management occupations (11.74%), and healthcare (6.90%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.04% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cheswold has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cheswold has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cheswold than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cheswold may be for you.
The percentage of adults in Cheswold with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.64% of adults in Cheswold have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cheswold in 2022 was $32,781, which is lower middle income relative to Delaware, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,124 for a family of four. However, Cheswold contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cheswold is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cheswold home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cheswold residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cheswold also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.28% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cheswold include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Other Subsaharan African.
The most common language spoken in Cheswold is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cheswold, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 9.4% have Puerto Rican ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cheswold are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 40.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cheswold, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (9.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.6%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.