Photo: Dough4872 · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Rehoboth Beach are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Rehoboth Beach are B+ for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. 8.7% of residents live below the poverty line; Delaware has 10.4%. At home: 37% of workers have no commute at all (Delaware 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Rehoboth Beach at work: what stands out
Rehoboth Beach fills up on a workday
Rehoboth Beach has 2,535 jobs, 7.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,500 people are in town, more than double the 1,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Rehoboth Beach works from home
37% of Rehoboth Beach workers work from home, against 15% across Delaware. Time on the road ↓
Rehoboth Beach’s workforce skews older
39% of Rehoboth Beach’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 348 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Rehoboth Beach’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Rehoboth Beach is better than 70% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Rehoboth Beach’s grade up ($137,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach could be anywhere from B to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Rehoboth Beach
On a workday 272 residents head out to work, 76 work right here, and 2,459 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Rehoboth Beach on a workday afternoon, 167% more than live here.
7.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Rehoboth Beach: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rehoboth Beach workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 419 commuters (the 37% 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.
Rehoboth Beach is a services town
2,535 jobs are based in Rehoboth Beach.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rehoboth Beach, 2013 → 2023: 2,336 → 2,535. 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 Rehoboth Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Rehoboth Beach’s workforce comes from
Where Rehoboth Beach 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.
Half of Rehoboth Beach commutes less than 9 miles
About 24% 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.
Rehoboth Beach is among the most walkable U.S. towns
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rehoboth Beach is among the most walkable U.S. towns. Both inputs place Rehoboth Beach near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 667 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 10.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 94% 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). 6.0% of Rehoboth Beach households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Rehoboth Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Rehoboth Beach is 944th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 77 | St. Georges DE | 1,530 | $132K | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 328 | Bellefonte DE | 1,313 | $91K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 650 | Bethany Beach DE | 1,104 | $117K | 1.7% | 1.7% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 942 | Walcott IA | 1,530 | $79K | 6.6% | 3.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 943 | Green Township IN | 1,028 | $97K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 944 | Rehoboth Beach DE | 1,309 | $138K | 8.7% | 6.7% | 22% | B+ |
| 945 | Roaming Shores OH | 1,600 | $91K | 6.4% | 2.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 946 | Empire Township KS | 1,301 | $95K | 4.4% | 0.4% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Rehoboth Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
The towns around Rehoboth Beach
The biggest share goes to Henlopen Acres (1%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rehoboth Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rehoboth Beach | – | B+ | A+ | 21 min | $137,500 |
| Henlopen Acres | 1% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Henlopen Acres: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rehoboth Beach’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 Rehoboth Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Rehoboth Beach?
$137,500 (±$24,680) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rehoboth Beach?
8.7%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rehoboth Beach?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 37% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rehoboth Beach work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lewes (4%, 5 mi), Dover (4%, 39 mi), Wilmington (3%, 74 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rehoboth Beach walkable?
Rehoboth Beach is among the most walkable U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.8 out of 20, and 20% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rehoboth Beach without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rehoboth Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rehoboth Beach
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.