Photo: RevelationDirect · CC BY-SA 3.0Felton has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Felton report 210 jobs; 627 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Felton B−; getting around on foot earns it A−. Only 2% stay in Felton for work; outside it, Dover is the main destination (20%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Felton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Felton is better than 48% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Felton’s grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($59,896, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Felton’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, Felton could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Felton by day and by night
On a workday 617 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 200 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Felton on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Where Felton goes to work
Where Felton clocks in
20% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in Felton: what the 210 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Felton, 2013 → 2023: 196 → 210. 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 Felton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Felton: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Felton workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 624 commuters (the 8% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Felton
About 15% 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.
Felton is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Felton is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. 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 679 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 5.1% of Felton households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Felton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Felton ranks 2,134th of 5,877 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | St. Georges DE | 1,530 | $132K | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 352 | Lincoln DE | 1,873 | $108K | 0.0% | 1.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 370 | Bellefonte DE | 1,313 | $91K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,132 | Wautoma WI | 1,298 | $81K | 7.4% | 1.8% | 5% | B− |
| 2,133 | Barview OR | 1,684 | $79K | 4.5% | 5.1% | 3% | B− |
| 2,134 | Felton DE | 1,386 | $60K | 7.0% | 2.7% | 2% | B− |
| 2,135 | Vass NC | 1,062 | $74K | 6.7% | 3.9% | 2% | B− |
| 2,136 | Alum Creek WV | 1,749 | $74K | 11.0% | 12.9% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Felton, 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 Felton: questions
What is the median household income in Felton?
$59,896 (±$32,561) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Felton?
7.0%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Felton?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Felton work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (20%, 11 mi), Milford (8%, 11 mi), Camden (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Felton walkable?
Felton is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Felton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Felton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Felton
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.