Photo: Eli Pousson · CC BY-SA 2.0Georgetown has 2.7 jobs for every working resident: 6,471 people commute in to work
6,804 jobs are based in Georgetown; 2,487 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Georgetown is better than 25% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+). Household incomes here are lower than in 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Georgetown and work: the main findings
No single place dominates Georgetown’s commute
The biggest draw, Milford, gets only 4% of working residents, and 65% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Georgetown residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Georgetown is where the jobs are
Georgetown has 6,804 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 13,000 people are in town, 52% more than the 8,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Georgetown draws workers from far and wide
The 6,804 jobs in Georgetown are filled from a wide area. Georgetown’s own residents hold 5% and the ten next-biggest home towns 19%; the other 76% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
How Georgetown earns its Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Georgetown’s grade up (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($49,719, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Georgetown could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where Georgetown’s workforce comes from
Where Georgetown clocks in
4% of workers
4% 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.
Who works in Georgetown, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,154 residents head out to work and 333 work right here.
About 13,000 people are in Georgetown on a workday afternoon, 52% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Georgetown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Georgetown, 2013 → 2023: 5,569 → 6,804. 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 Georgetown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Georgetown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Georgetown workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,853 commuters (the 5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Georgetown
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Georgetown start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 2,989 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 90% 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 6.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% 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). 3.2% of Georgetown households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Georgetown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,012 U.S. towns of 5,800 to 11,200, Georgetown comes 2,440th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Pike Creek DE | 7,129 | $140K | 1.3% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | North Star DE | 7,834 | $151K | 3.5% | 3.1% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,122 | Wilmington Manor DE | 8,214 | $78K | 11.6% | 2.7% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,438 | Hidden Valley Lake CA | 5,872 | $84K | 7.8% | 11.2% | 8% | C |
| 2,439 | Rio Vista CA | 10,523 | $89K | 10.3% | 10.9% | 17% | C |
| 2,440 | Georgetown DE | 8,291 | $50K | 16.8% | 3.7% | 13% | C |
| 2,441 | Magnolia AR | 10,660 | $56K | 22.7% | 2.7% | 45% | C |
| 2,442 | Shasta Lake CA | 10,208 | $67K | 13.3% | 7.2% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,012 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Georgetown, 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 Georgetown: questions
What is the median household income in Georgetown?
$49,719 (±$6,091) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Georgetown?
16.8%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Georgetown?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Georgetown work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milford (4%, 15 mi), Dover (4%, 33 mi), Seaford (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Georgetown walkable?
Georgetown is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Georgetown without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Georgetown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Georgetown
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.