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Rising Sun-Lebanon, DE

Education leads a local job base of 517 workplace jobs alongside 4,163 residents.

Population
4,163
ACS 5-year estimate
Local jobs
517
LODES workplace jobs
Median income
$113,529
ACS 5-year estimate
School locations
3
FirstMap site count
City overview

The forces shaping Rising Sun-Lebanon now.

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

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Civic

Rising Sun-Lebanon's representation splits across multiple districts.

2 House districts and 1 Senate district cover the boundary, so no single legislator speaks for the whole place.

House districts: 2 · Senate districts: 1

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

Rising Sun-Lebanon has a well-stocked restaurants directory.

5 listed restaurants locations appear inside the boundary—directory records, not a ranking or completeness claim.

Restaurants: 5

Source: Overture Maps Foundation, checked 2026-08-19.0.
People

Who lives here—and which households shape demand?

ACS five-year estimates describe the resident population and households. They are survey estimates, so their uncertainty remains visible rather than being converted into a ranking.

Population
4,163

ACS 5-year estimate

Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Households
1,226
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Median age
32
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Median household income
$113,529
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Bachelor's degree or higher
36%

Among residents age 25 and older. ±16% margin of error.

Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Population composition

Residents by Census category

Each share uses the total Rising Sun-Lebanon 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-Hispanic59%
Black, non-Hispanic22%
Two or more races, non-Hispanic11%
Hispanic or Latino5%
Asian Indian1%

Sources: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗; 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: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗. ACS estimates cover a five-year survey period; margin of error is reported where provided.

Work

What work is located inside Rising Sun-Lebanon?

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.

Education213
Hospitality86
Retail80
Healthcare & social assistance66
Construction / real estate26
Administrative & support24

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
68%
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Median owner value
$389,900
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Vacancy rate
4%
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Two-bedroom rent benchmark
$1,629
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$389,900
Middle half of homes$307,400–$546,900Lower to upper quartile of owner estimates
Luxury-home concentration0%Estimated at $2M+
Under $500k69%
$500–749k31%
$750–999k0%
$1–1.49M0%
$1.5–1.99M0%
$2M+0%

Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗.

Existing housing mix

Detached homes68%
Attached homes4%
Small multifamily14%
5+ unit multifamily0%
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.

Scheduled stops
6
Source: gtfs dart first state|gtfs septa bus|gtfs septa rail · 2026 ↗
Weekday departures
67
Source: gtfs dart first state|gtfs septa bus|gtfs septa rail · 2026 ↗
Drove alone
78%
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
Worked from home
0%
Source: census acs5 2024 · 2024 ↗
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 Rising Sun-Lebanon—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.

Dover

Dover is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Rising Sun-Lebanon, representing 41% of matched resident jobs from this place.

15–30 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.

Camden

Camden is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Rising Sun-Lebanon, representing 8% 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.

Milford

Milford is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for Rising Sun-Lebanon, representing 8% of matched resident jobs from this place.

25–60 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.

Wilmington

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

90–160 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: Rising Sun-Lebanon representative point.

Place 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 Rising Sun-Lebanon

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

Hospitals0 in cityFind nearby
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Restaurants5 listedView all
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Salons and barbers2 listedView all
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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 Rising Sun-Lebanon.

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 elementary1
  • Allen Frear Elementary SchoolGrades 0105
Public middle1
  • F. Niel Postlethwait Middle SchoolGrades 0608
Public high0

None in the current FirstMap place-boundary match.

Other public programs1
  • John S. Charlton SchoolGrades IT12

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

Civic

Who represents Rising Sun-Lebanon 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

Senate District 16: Eric Buckson (R)Official page ↗
House District 32: Kerri Evelyn Harris (D)Official page ↗
House District 34: Lyndon D. Yearick (R)Official page ↗

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.

Rising Sun-Lebanon has no town government

As a Census-designated place, Rising Sun-Lebanon was never incorporated—there is no charter, mayor, council, or town website to point residents to. Kent County provides the local government services an incorporated town would otherwise run.

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