Barratt's Chapel · Photo: David Ames, Photographer · Public domainFrederica has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Frederica grades B for jobs and income and D− for walkability. <1% of workers have no commute at all; Delaware has 15%. 53 jobs are based in Frederica for 423 working residents. Measured by household income, Frederica is ahead of 57% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Frederica, in a few figures
Frederica is a place people come home to
There are 53 jobs based in Frederica, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Frederica has about 790 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Frederica workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 15% across Delaware. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 423 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Frederica’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Frederica is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Frederica’s grade up (6.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Frederica’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, Frederica could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Who commutes out of Frederica, and who commutes in
On a workday 423 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 53 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Frederica on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
From Frederica, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frederica workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 573 commuters (the <1% 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.
17% of working residents work in Milford
Where Frederica clocks in
17% of workers
17% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Frederica
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frederica, 2013 → 2023: 32 → 53. 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 Frederica’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Frederica commutes
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.
The commute in Frederica is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frederica is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Frederica near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 575 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 51% 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). 2.5% of Frederica households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Frederica’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Frederica ranks: 999th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | St. Georges DE | 1,530 | $132K | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 253 | Bellefonte DE | 1,313 | $91K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 496 | Bethany Beach DE | 1,104 | $117K | 1.7% | 1.7% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 997 | Fall Creek WI | 1,390 | $87K | 7.3% | 3.5% | 8% | B |
| 998 | Marshfield WI | 1,199 | $99K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 999 | Frederica DE | 1,155 | $81K | 6.5% | 3.4% | 0% | B |
| 1,000 | Clay Township OH | 1,518 | $69K | 0.5% | 2.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,001 | Augusta Township OH | 1,470 | $84K | 6.9% | 6.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Frederica, 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 Frederica: questions
What is the median household income in Frederica?
$80,924 (±$16,041) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frederica?
6.5%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frederica?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frederica work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milford (17%, 7 mi), Dover (17%, 11 mi), Wilmington (3%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Frederica walkable?
Frederica is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frederica 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 Frederica, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frederica
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.