Ellendale is a tiny town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 541 people and just one neighborhood, Ellendale is the 36th largest community in Delaware. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Ellendale, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Ellendale, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Ellendale’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Ellendale does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $66,875.00.
Ellendale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ellendale is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellendale who work in sales jobs (19.10%), healthcare suport services (10.05%), and office and administrative support (9.05%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.04% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
As is often the case in a small town, Ellendale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ellendale rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.49% of adults 25 and older in Ellendale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Ellendale in 2022 was $19,023, which is low income relative to Delaware and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,092 for a family of four. However, Ellendale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ellendale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ellendale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Ellendale, accounting for 38.81% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Ellendale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ellendale include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Ellendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ellendale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.6%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Ellendale, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.7%), among others. In addition, 10.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.