Melson House · Photo: Linda Roy Walls · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Bridgeville are lower than in 66% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Bridgeville itself; outside it, Seaford draws the most (12%, 5 miles). Below the poverty line: 13.4% of residents, next to 10.4% across Delaware. For jobs and income Bridgeville is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bridgeville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Bridgeville’s grade.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Bridgeville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bridgeville could be anywhere from D to B.
Who works in Bridgeville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 849 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 921 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.08 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Bridgeville to work: where people go
Where Bridgeville clocks in
12% of workers
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Inside Bridgeville’s 986 jobs
986 jobs are based in Bridgeville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bridgeville, 2013 → 2023: 800 → 986. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bridgeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Bridgeville: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bridgeville workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 677 commuters (the 22% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Bridgeville commutes
About 24% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Bridgeville
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.9% across Delaware.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 867 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 98% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Bridgeville households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Bridgeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,219th of 4,618: where Bridgeville ranks among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 372 | Greenville DE | 3,713 | $143K | 4.0% | 4.2% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 458 | Townsend DE | 2,985 | $153K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 815 | Dover Base Housing DE | 2,962 | $82K | 2.2% | 12.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,217 | Ovid Township MI | 2,217 | $73K | 8.9% | 7.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,218 | Foster Township PA | 3,555 | $68K | 10.5% | 9.4% | 4% | C |
| 3,219 | Bridgeville DE | 2,997 | $65K | 13.4% | 5.8% | 7% | C |
| 3,220 | Bloomfield IA | 2,785 | $61K | 6.9% | 5.5% | 23% | C |
| 3,221 | Homestead PA | 2,822 | $39K | 18.6% | 5.5% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bridgeville, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bridgeville: questions
What is the median household income in Bridgeville?
$64,879 (±$18,205) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bridgeville?
13.4%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bridgeville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bridgeville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seaford (12%, 5 mi), Georgetown (5%, 12 mi), Milford (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bridgeville walkable?
Bridgeville is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bridgeville without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bridgeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bridgeville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.