Long NeckDE
A town of 2,161.
Is Long Neck a good place to live?
Long Neck’s best subject grades are an A− for cost of living and a B for health; its weakest is a C− for incomes. 56% of residents are 65 or older in Long Neck, above both Delaware’s towns (19%) and U.S. towns (18%). Only 3 of Delaware’s 54 towns score lower on incomes. Long Neck has 9 places on the National Register. The biggest park or preserve is Okie Preserve Poplar Thicket Farm, at 24 acres. Long Neck has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Long Neck has grown 52% from 2010 to 2020
1,980 counted in 2010 and 3,017 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Long Neck grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Delaware), ordered by how far Long Neck is from typical.
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Moving to Long Neck: who provides what
Long Neck is unincorporated, so Sussex County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Long Neck.
Long Neck has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Long Neck for work: only 7% work in town. At $57,000, Long Neck’s median household income is where Delaware’s towns sit at $81,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000. Jobs based in Long Neck grew to 458 in 2023, 111 more than in 2013.
| Long Neck | Delaware towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $57,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 10% | 8.2% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Long Neck has four seasons and pleasant summers
Long Neck has mild winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 29° and about 11 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Long Neck
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 67% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 21 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Long Neck.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Long Neck is healthier than 61% of U.S. towns
Long Neck beats the Delaware average on 16 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 47% of adults have high blood pressure in Long Neck. Only 2 of the 38 Delaware towns we compare have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Long Neck.
| Long Neck | Delaware towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 47% | 37% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 33% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 86% | 81% | 79% |
| What stands out | Long Neck | DE |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6% | 11.6% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4.1% | 7.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 15% | 9.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Long Neck has set aside 4.3% of its land for conservation
0.2 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Among 35 Delaware towns, just 1 have a lower share of conserved land than Long Neck. Long Neck’s trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Long Neck | Delaware towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.3% | 15% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Okie Preserve Poplar Thicket Farm | — | 24 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Morey's Piers and 18 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Long Neck. Close and well known come first.
32 mi Theme parkMorey's Piers
12 mi LandmarkFort Miles
21 mi National SeashoreAssateague Island National Seashore2.3M visitors a year
36 mi MuseumUSCGC Tamaroa19 mi Theme parkJolly Roger Amusement Park
8 mi Theme parkFunland (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware)Photo credits
Morey's Piers: Smallbones, CC0 · Fort Miles: Unknown, Public domain · Assateague Island National Seashore: Fritz Geller-Grimm, CC BY-SA 2.5 · USCGC Tamaroa: Unknown USCG member, Public domain · Funland (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware): Tsole, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Everything we know about Long Neck
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Long Neck; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Long Neck residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Delaware.
Long Neck lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 14% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
About Long Neck
Census-designated place in Delaware, United States
Long Neck is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. As of the 2020 census, Long Neck had a population of 3,017. Long Neck was the only census-designated place in Sussex County until Lincoln was added in the 2020 United States census. It is part of the Seaford, Delaware, Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 13 ft
- Area code
- 302
Questions about Long Neck
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Long Neck, DE expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.