Delaware City, Delaware

Delaware City population, 2020 to 2024

Delaware City added 50 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

Delaware City covers 1.86 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,039 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Delaware City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Delaware City is in

All of Delaware City's residents live in New Castle County, which had 588,093 residents in 2024. Delaware City holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Delaware City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Delaware City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 19706. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Delaware City is

The Census internal point of Delaware City is at 39.573800, -75.594600. Dover, the capital, is 29.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salem, NJ (5,369 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 38.8 miles away.

Daylight in Delaware City

At 39.57° N, Delaware City gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Delaware City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is New Castle, 6.8 miles away, with 5,715 people.