#1Milford
Sussex County11,166 in 2020·14,723 in 2025·+3,557 people
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Fastest-growing towns in Delaware
Milford has grown fastest of Delaware’s 21 towns of 2,500+: up 31.9% from 11,166 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 14,723 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +14.3%; 2 of the 21 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+31.9%
#2Ocean View
Sussex County2,665 in 2020·3,107 in 2025·+442 people
#3Selbyville
Sussex County2,901 in 2020·3,381 in 2025·+480 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Delaware?
Milford (Sussex County): it grew 31.9%, from 11,166 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 14,723 in July 2025. Ocean View (+16.6%) and Selbyville (+16.5%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (21 in Delaware). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Delaware page.
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