Photo: Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0Greenwood at work: jobs, income and the commute
Working residents average 31 minutes each way (Delaware 26, U.S. 26). The two grades for Greenwood are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 3% stay in Greenwood for work; outside it, Seaford is the main destination (6%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Greenwood stands out on work
Jobs & income in Greenwood: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Greenwood is better than 44% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greenwood’s grade up (8.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Greenwood’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Greenwood could be anywhere from C− to B+.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Greenwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenwood workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 741 commuters (the 10% 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.
How many people are in Greenwood by day
On a workday 405 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 484 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Greenwood: the destinations
Where Greenwood clocks in
6% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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 the 496 jobs in Greenwood are
496 jobs are based in Greenwood.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenwood, 2013 → 2023: 192 → 496. 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 Greenwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Greenwood, by distance
About 20% 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 of Greenwood commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenwood is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.9% across Delaware, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 821 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.9% of Greenwood households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Greenwood is 1,725th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,723 | Good Hope Township OH | 1,313 | $81K | 10.6% | 9.8% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,724 | Marion Township PA | 1,110 | $75K | 5.8% | 2.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,725 | Greenwood DE | 1,153 | $73K | 8.4% | 1.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,726 | Jefferson Township OH | 1,319 | $84K | 11.0% | 2.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,727 | Sawyerwood OH | 1,241 | $52K | 12.1% | 12.2% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Greenwood, 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 Greenwood: questions
What is the median household income in Greenwood?
$73,345 (±$9,930) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenwood?
8.4%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenwood?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenwood work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seaford (6%, 10 mi), Milford (6%, 12 mi), Georgetown (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenwood walkable?
Greenwood is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenwood
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.