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Ellendale, DE

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Overview


Ellendale is a tiny town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 527 people and just one neighborhood, Ellendale is the 36th largest community in Delaware. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Ellendale, 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 Ellendale, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Ellendale’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Ellendale does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $64,886.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Ellendale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ellendale is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellendale who work in sales jobs (20.21%), office and administrative support (11.17%), and healthcare suport services (7.98%).

A relatively large number of people in Ellendale telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.02% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Ellendale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Ellendale is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.83% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ellendale in 2022 was $20,258, which is low income relative to Delaware and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,032 for a family of four. However, Ellendale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ellendale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ellendale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Ellendale, accounting for 36.45% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Ellendale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ellendale include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Ellendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 8.7% have Puerto Rican ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ellendale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.0%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 86.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Ellendale, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.9%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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