City safety & data profile
DoverDE
Dover, DE is a 39K-resident city in Kent County with a median household income of $60,199.
Kent County, Delaware. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Dover, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Dover has a population larger than 73% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $258,900, and 2 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
Data updated 2026-09-04
- 39K
- Population (place)
- Top 27%
- By size
- $60,199
- Median income (place)
- $258,900
- Median home (place)
- 15%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Dover
Dover posts a median household income higher than 22% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 2 hospitals serve the Dover area.
- Bottom 23%
- by median income, US cities
- 2
- hospitals in & near Dover
Where Dover income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$60,199 Bottom 22% higher than 22% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in DE
Population among 11 DE places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Wilmington
Wilmington, DE
70,898 residents
- Dover
Dover, DE
39,403 residents
- Newark
Newark, DE
33,817 residents
- Middletown 20,372
Middletown, DE
20,372 residents
- Bear 19,371
Bear, DE
19,371 residents
- Brookside 14,353
Brookside, DE
14,353 residents
- Glasgow 14,303
Glasgow, DE
14,303 residents
- Hockessin 13,527
Hockessin, DE
13,527 residents
- Smyrna 11,319
Smyrna, DE
11,319 residents
- Pike Creek V… 11,217
Pike Creek Valley, DE
11,217 residents
What this shows Wilmington is the largest DE city on this list; Hockessin leads median income.
Highest median incomes in DE
Median household income among the same 11-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Hockessin
Hockessin, DE
$171,204 median
- Glasgow
Glasgow, DE
$113,982 median
- Middletown
Middletown, DE
$112,831 median
- Pike Creek V…
Pike Creek Valley, DE
$102,434 median
- Bear
Bear, DE
$91,687 median
- Brookside
Brookside, DE
$78,328 median
- Newark
Newark, DE
$76,912 median
- Smyrna $67,048
Smyrna, DE
$67,048 median
- Dover $60,199
Dover, DE
$60,199 median
- Milford $59,464
Milford, DE
$59,464 median
What this shows Hockessin posts the highest place-level median income in DE; Wilmington is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Dover, DE beyond the headline numbers
Dover sits inside Kent County, Delaware, at roughly 39.16°N, -75.52°W. Population 39,403, $60,199 median household income. Median home value $258,900, median rent $1,344. Poverty rate 15%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
2 hospitals in/around Dover, 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.
Poverty in Dover, DE stands at 15%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
A median home in Dover runs about 4.3 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Remote work covers 9% of Dover workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 13.4% in Dover, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
Dover's median age is 34.7 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Dover from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Kent County): Dover's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 15% +21% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 7.7% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 26.7% |
| Work From Home | 9% |
| Public Transit | 1.2% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 2 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Dover?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Dover right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet DE-DOVER-DE · Dover
Dover: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Dover; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Delaware state hubs · Methodology
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Frequently Asked Questions 6
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Dover, both outside Delaware so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside DE (15% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside DE ($60,199 here).
Compare Dover with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Dover's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
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Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Kent County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.