St. George's Chapel · Photo: Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0Long Neck has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
458 jobs are based in Long Neck; 1,056 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Long Neck is better than 23% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). Measured by household income, Long Neck is behind 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Long Neck and work: the main findings
Inside Long Neck’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Long Neck’s grade up (10.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($56,745, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Long Neck’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, Long Neck could be anywhere from D to B−.
The kinds of work in Long Neck
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Long Neck, 2013 → 2023: 347 → 458. 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 Long Neck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Long Neck on a workday afternoon
On a workday 980 residents head out to work, 76 work right here, and 382 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Long Neck on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Long Neck goes to work
Where Long Neck 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.
Getting to work from Long Neck takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Long Neck workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 639 commuters (the 15% 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 far Long Neck goes to work
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Long Neck gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 754 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 45% 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 1.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 63% 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). 3.6% of Long Neck households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Long Neck’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900, Long Neck comes 3,856th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | St. Georges DE | 1,530 | $132K | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 447 | Lincoln DE | 1,873 | $108K | 0.0% | 1.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,353 | Riverview DE | 2,596 | $93K | 8.2% | 3.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,854 | Marrowbone Township IL | 1,562 | $48K | 9.3% | 2.4% | 5% | C− |
| 3,855 | Barlow Township OH | 2,521 | $80K | 9.2% | 10.4% | 6% | C− |
| 3,856 | Long Neck DE | 2,161 | $57K | 10.2% | 1.9% | 7% | C− |
| 3,857 | Midway South TX | 2,308 | $54K | 24.5% | 6.5% | 0% | C− |
| 3,858 | Lagrange IN | 2,769 | $54K | 13.1% | 6.7% | 17% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Long Neck, 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 Long Neck: questions
What is the median household income in Long Neck?
$56,745 (±$10,156) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Long Neck?
10.2%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Long Neck?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Long Neck work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lewes (4%, 11 mi), Georgetown (4%, 13 mi), Rehoboth Beach (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Long Neck walkable?
Long Neck is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Long Neck without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Long Neck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Long Neck
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.