Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Fenwick Island has 2.3 jobs for every working resident: 215 people commute in to work
222 jobs are based in Fenwick Island for 96 working residents. Only 7% work in Fenwick Island; the top destination outside it is Ocean City (6%, 4 miles). For 45% of workers, the job is at home; Delaware has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Fenwick Island fills up on a workday
On a workday 89 residents head out to work and 7 work right here.
About 520 people are in Fenwick Island on a workday afternoon, 32% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Fenwick Island
Where Fenwick Island clocks in
4% 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.
What Fenwick Island’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fenwick Island, 2014 → 2024: 125 → 222. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fenwick Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Fenwick Island takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fenwick Island workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 76 commuters (the 45% 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.
Miles to work from Fenwick Island
About 36% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Fenwick Island: questions
What is the median household income in Fenwick Island?
$113,125 (±$22,658) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fenwick Island?
3.0%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fenwick Island?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 45% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fenwick Island work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocean City (6%, 4 mi), Wilmington (4%, 92 mi), Dover (4%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Fenwick Island without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fenwick Island, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fenwick Island
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.