Wilmington is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 71,569 people and 63 associated neighborhoods, Wilmington is the largest community in Delaware. Wilmington has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Also of interest is that Wilmington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.87% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

One thing that you will notice about Wilmington is that there is a good-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. Many singles consider Wilmington a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.

A lot of people in Wilmington take the bus for their daily commute. For the size of the city, the number of people who use public transportation is quite high. For many people in Wilmington, this fills their need for low-cost transportation.

In terms of college education, Wilmington is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.17% of adults in Wilmington have a college degree.

The per capita income in Wilmington in 2022 was $36,446, which is middle income relative to Delaware, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,784 for a family of four. However, Wilmington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wilmington is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wilmington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wilmington residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Wilmington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.28% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wilmington include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Wilmington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.