Blackwater Presbyterian Church · Photo: Jack Boucher · Public domainHouseholds in Millville earn more than those in 77% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 5.8% of residents, where Delaware as a whole has 10.4%. For jobs and income Millville is better than 63% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+). 31% of workers have no commute at all, where Delaware as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Millville, in brief
Millville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Millville went from 399 in 2013 to 784 in 2023, +96%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Millville works from home
31% of Millville workers work from home, against 15% across Delaware. Time on the road ↓
Millville’s workforce skews older
37% of Millville’s working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓
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; with 693 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Millville
Household income holds Millville’s grade up ($99,776, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Millville’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, Millville could be anywhere from B− to B+.
The 784 jobs based in Millville
784 jobs are based in Millville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Millville, 2013 → 2023: 399 → 784. 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 Millville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Millville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Millville workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 616 commuters (the 31% 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 a workday changes Millville
On a workday 667 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 758 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 (1.13 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.
5% of working residents work in Ocean View
Where Millville clocks in
5% of workers
4% 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.
The distance from Millville 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.
Few in Millville walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 892 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). 2.0% of Millville households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Millville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Millville is 1,558th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,556 | Big Lake WA | 2,326 | $109K | 5.1% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,557 | Sleepy Hollow WY | 1,632 | $121K | 10.4% | 1.9% | <1% | B |
| 1,558 | Millville DE | 2,145 | $100K | 5.8% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,559 | Blue Grass IA | 1,703 | $93K | 6.4% | 6.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,560 | Brooklawn NJ | 1,834 | $59K | 9.3% | 4.6% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Millville, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
Work in the towns next to Millville
The biggest share goes to Ocean View (5%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Millville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millville | – | B | C+ | 29 min | $99,776 |
| Ocean View | 5% | B− | B− | 25 min | $91,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Millville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Millville: questions
What is the median household income in Millville?
$99,776 (±$7,712) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Millville?
5.8%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Millville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 31% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Millville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocean View (5%, 2 mi), Lewes (5%, 17 mi), Bethany Beach (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Millville walkable?
Millville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Millville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Millville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Millville
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.