Photo: Roland Balik · Public domainMost of Dover Base Housing commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
There are 223 jobs in Dover Base Housing, and 595 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Dover Base Housing A−; getting around on foot earns it C. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, next to 15% for Delaware as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Dover Base Housing: the figures worth knowing
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Dover Base Housing
On family income, poverty and job access, Dover Base Housing is better than 79% of U.S. towns, #10 of 37 in Delaware. The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.4%, U.S. 11.9%); family income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($97,083, U.S. $99,999). It also does well on family income and job access by car.
19% of Dover Base Housing’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (21% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 2.4%, against 2.2% for all residents. Unemployment (12.4%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($97,083), since student households pull the household median down ($82,161).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Dover Base Housing could be anywhere from B− to A.
Time on the road from Dover Base Housing: about 12 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dover Base Housing workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,316 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who leaves Dover Base Housing for work, and who comes in
On a workday 587 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 215 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Dover Base Housing on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Dover
Where Dover Base Housing clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
In Dover Base Housing, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dover Base Housing, 2013 → 2023: 76 → 223. 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 Dover Base Housing’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Dover Base Housing
About 16% 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.
Driving is how Dover Base Housing gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dover Base Housing is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns, #36 of 37 in Delaware. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,394 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 32% 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 4.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 82% 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). 2.2% of Dover Base Housing households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dover Base Housing’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000, Dover Base Housing comes 815th on jobs and income
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 813 | Greenbush WI | 2,235 | $87K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A− |
| 814 | Knightsen CA | 2,264 | $177K | 3.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A− |
| 815 | Dover Base Housing DE | 2,962 | $82K | 2.2% | 12.4% | 1% | A− |
| 816 | Morris AL | 2,360 | $102K | 6.7% | 3.6% | 2% | A− |
| 817 | Sloatsburg NY | 3,120 | $108K | 5.4% | 6.3% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,122 | Highland Acres DE | 3,752 | $102K | 6.2% | 4.5% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Dover Base Housing, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
Bordering towns draw 10% of Dover Base Housing’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dover Base Housing workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover Base Housing | – | A− | C | 12 min | $82,161 |
| Dover | 10% | C− | A | 23 min | $60,199 |
| Rising Sun-Lebanon | under 2% | A− | B | 29 min | $113,529 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Dover. Darker towns draw more of Dover Base Housing’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- Students. 19% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Dover Base Housing: questions
What is the median household income in Dover Base Housing?
$82,161 (±$13,477) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dover Base Housing?
2.2% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 2.4%. Delaware: 10.4%.
How long is the commute from Dover Base Housing?
12 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dover Base Housing work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (10%, 4 mi), Wilmington (6%, 43 mi), New Castle (5%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dover Base Housing walkable?
Dover Base Housing is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dover Base Housing without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dover Base Housing, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dover Base Housing
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.