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
The top destinations are Lewes (4%), Georgetown (4%) and Rehoboth Beach (3%). Most working residents leave Long Neck for work: only 7% work in town. This Delaware town had 458 jobs in 2023, up 111 from 2013. The typical household income for Long Neck comes to $57,000, where Delaware’s towns sit at $81,000 and U.S. towns at $80,000.
| 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
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Long Neck
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
Natural hazards: low risk in Long Neck, mostly inland flooding
FEMA puts 30% of Long Neck’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 30% to hurricanes. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 67% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims in the town since 1982: 21.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Long Neck is healthier than three in five U.S. towns
Only 3 of the 38 Delaware towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have high blood pressure than Long Neck. The town does better than the Delaware average on 16 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 7. The share of adults in Long Neck who report frequent mental distress: 12%.
| 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
Open space protected for good: 4.3% of Long Neck
Walkers can cover 0.2 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Among 35 Delaware towns, just one has a lower share of conserved land than Long Neck. Also worth knowing: in Long Neck, the concentration of trails 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−.