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New Castle County · Delaware incorporated municipality

Bellefonte, DE

Hospitality leads a local job base of 223 workplace jobs alongside 1,242 residents.

Population
1,242
DPC official estimate
Local jobs
223
LODES workplace jobs
Median income
$90,694
ACS 5-year estimate
School locations
0
FirstMap site count
City overview

The forces shaping Bellefonte now.

A missing measure is unavailable coverage, not zero or an absence claim.

People

Who lives here—and which households shape demand?

Population uses Delaware's official Population Consortium estimate, which does not carry the ACS survey's sampling error for small places. Households and other figures below remain ACS survey estimates.

Population
1,242

Delaware Population Consortium official estimate

Source: dpc projections 2024 · 2024 ↗
2050 population projection
1,262

Planning projection, not an observed outcome

Source: dpc projections 2024 · 2050 ↗
Households
587
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Median age
42
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Median household income
$90,694
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Bachelor's degree or higher
34%

Among residents age 25 and older. ±10% margin of error.

Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Population composition

Residents by Census category

Each share uses the total Bellefonte population as its denominator. Hispanic or Latino may be of any race; the other broad categories are non-Hispanic. Detailed Asian-alone groups use a separate Census race table.

White, non-Hispanic75%
Black, non-Hispanic16%
Two or more races, non-Hispanic4%
Hispanic or Latino3%

Sources: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗. Positive detailed Asian estimates are shown in this same composition list; published zeroes are omitted and are not proof of absence. Small differences may be within ACS survey uncertainty.

Source: dpc projections 2024 · 2024 ↗. ACS estimates cover a five-year survey period; margin of error is reported where provided.

Work

What work is located inside Bellefonte?

LODES counts jobs by workplace location, not the industries of residents or a named-employer roster. The sector mix can show the shape of the local job base, not dependence on individual companies.

Jobs by sector

Latest LODES workplace-job estimates. Shares use the total local job count. Commuter-flow context (who works here vs. lives here) is intentionally omitted until the Delaware panel can identify scoped destinations without overstating cross-border precision — see real work-destination distances in the Mobility section below.

Hospitality59
Administrative & support46
Professional services37
Construction / real estate30
Finance21
Government14

Source: lodes8 wac de 2023 · 2023 ↗.

Housing

What kinds of homes exist—and where is pressure visible?

Housing estimates describe existing conditions. Permit and development records signal reported activity, not starts, completions, or a complete construction census.

Owner-occupied
69%
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Median owner value
$289,500
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Vacancy rate
4%
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Two-bedroom rent benchmark
$1,860
Source: hud fmr 2027 · 2027 ↗
Owner-home values

A Census estimate, not a market price

These estimates cover owner-occupied homes only. They are not listings, sales, appraisals, or an all-homes measure; the final Census band is open-ended at $2M+.

Median estimate$289,500
Middle half of homes$233,900–$353,400Lower to upper quartile of owner estimates
Luxury-home concentration1%Estimated at $2M+
Under $500k97%
$500–749k3%
$750–999k0%
$1–1.49M0%
$1.5–1.99M0%
$2M+1%

Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗.

Existing housing mix

Detached homes82%
Attached homes3%
Small multifamily12%
5+ unit multifamily1%
Mobility

What is the scheduled supply—and how do workers usually commute?

GTFS measures scheduled service at stops within the boundary. It is not ridership, reliability, or a guarantee that a particular trip is practical. ACS commute modes are a separate survey estimate.

Typical drive times

About how long does it take to get where people go?

Work destinations are selected from observed resident job flows. These are broad, reviewed planning ranges from representative parts of Bellefonte—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.

Wilmington

Wilmington is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Bellefonte, representing 44% of matched resident jobs from this place.

10–30 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

New Castle

New Castle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Bellefonte, representing 9% of matched resident jobs from this place.

25–50 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Wilmington Manor

Wilmington Manor is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Bellefonte, representing 6% of matched resident jobs from this place.

25–50 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Dover

Dover is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Bellefonte, representing 5% of matched resident jobs from this place.

85–160 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Highway-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.25x circuity factor and an assumed 45 km/h peak-effective / 70 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Method, review date, and sources

Planning estimate; actual time varies by departure time, route, traffic, weather, incidents, and closures.

Estimates are derived from reviewed origin/destination coordinates using the same documented distance-to-time heuristic as the Washington pilot (circuity factor and assumed effective speed by corridor type and period), then deliberately widened and rounded to a broad band. No live routing or traffic API was called. Two methodology differences from the Washington pilot, both disclosed: each place uses a single Census TIGER internal point as its representative origin rather than three job-weighted directional sample origins, and work destinations are selected from Delaware's own place-to-place LODES flow file rather than block-level clustering—out-of-state commute flows (aggregated to the Pennsylvania/Maryland/New Jersey state level in that source) are excluded because a state has no single routable coordinate.

Estimates reviewed 2026-09-12. Starting point: Bellefonte representative point.

City boundary and regional context● nearby places
Daily life

Institutions and listed activity inside the boundary.

These are bounded inventories, not measures of access, enrollment, foot traffic, or the full local business economy. People routinely use services across place lines.

Local field guide

Places for everyday needs in Bellefonte

Care, errands, food, fitness, and personal services gathered into one browsable directory.

Counts reflect current directory records associated with the city, not a complete business census or a measure of access. Large categories show a sample.

Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), snapshot 2026-08-13; Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-08-19.0; U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (NPPES NPI Registry), snapshot 2026-09-12.

The schools inside Bellefonte.

Institution counts and enrollment remain separate. A school can serve students from outside the place, and residents may attend a school across the boundary or elsewhere in their district.

Public elementary0

None in the current FirstMap place-boundary match.

Public middle0

None in the current FirstMap place-boundary match.

Public high0

None in the current FirstMap place-boundary match.

Public-school names and grade levels come from Delaware Department of Education / Delaware FirstMap ↗.

Civic

Who represents Bellefonte today?

State House and Senate districts are drawn independently of municipal boundaries, so a place can span more than one district per chamber.

State legislature

Reflects the current Delaware FirstMap district snapshot; a vacancy, resignation, or mid-term appointment can lag this by a few weeks.

Source: Delaware General Assembly / City of Wilmington, via Delaware FirstMap, checked 2026-09-12.

Bellefonte's own government

Delaware has no single statewide directory of every town's mayor, council, and meeting schedule the way Washington's MRSC covers all 82 cities there, so Metroscope does not yet show a roster for Bellefonte. Its official town site is the current-best source for that.

Delaware runs one statewide emergency notification system, not a separate one per place; cell phones aren't enrolled automatically. Sign up for Delaware emergency alerts (DEMA) ↗