19702Glasgow, Delaware

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 19702.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity4669th of 6,210 published ZIP areas42
Schools3362nd of 4,422 published ZIP areas31
Housing affordabilityTop 44% of 6,685 published ZIP areas84
ClimateTop 47% of 6,789 published ZIP areas71
Physical resilienceTop 46% of 6,709 published ZIP areas61
Access4892nd of 6,791 published ZIP areas85
Economic stabilityTop 13% of 6,742 published ZIP areas79
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.8% and the Opportunity signal places 19702 in the bottom 25%.

In the public schools here, 20% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.7 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 21% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.7 times that income.

At a glance

Population
55,683
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$92,446
Top 25% nationally
Density
1,982/sq mi
28.1 sq mi of land
Median age
37.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Glasgow
Delaware
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Nearest major airport
PHL
31 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$346,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.8% is lower than 35% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 2.3% over the past year, to 286,524 employed residents.

40% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,176$92,446Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,542$42,131Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.9%Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.9 minBottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher39.6%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment286,524Top 17%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.4%Bottom 15%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.3%Bottom 14%June 2026
Labor force301,116Top 17%June 2026
Labor force participation72.9%Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,730Top 34%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,310Top 35%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.1%Bottom 42%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.8%Top 35%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202492k83k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $92,446 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides158,280$29,800
Registered Nurses73,790$101,180
Fast Food and Counter Workers69,080$32,220
General and Operations Managers68,730$121,630
Retail Salespersons63,990$34,810
Cashiers54,100$33,050

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Glasgow, DE, the city containing this ZIP code.

20% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 29% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.7 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
19.8%
Bottom 36% in Delaware
Reading proficiency
29.1%
Bottom 7% in Delaware
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Hodgson (Paul M.) Vocational Technical High SchoolNew Castle County Vocational-Technical School District1,10413.5
Academia Antonia Alonso · charterAcademia Antonia Alonso91018.25%12%
Glasgow High SchoolChristina School District90817.8
Marshall (Thurgood) Elementary SchoolChristina School District52915.142%52%
Keene (William B.) Elementary SchoolChristina School District40813.219%34%
Jones (Albert H.) Elementary SchoolChristina School District32914.326%37%
Brader (Henry M.) Elementary SchoolChristina School District32412.022%25%
Leasure (May B.) Elementary SchoolChristina School District31610.518%30%
Pyle (Sarah) AcademyChristina School District0

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Delaware’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,645 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
21.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,645
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$346,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.74Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate60.2%Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,12521,981Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$45$1,645Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,509$346,100Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.4%Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.3%Bottom 14%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 45.3 inches, including 20.2 inches of snow.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WILMINGTON NEW CASTLE CO AP, 7.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation45.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall20.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

61 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and hurricane.

Winter weatherModerate
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HurricaneModerate
Strong windModerate
DroughtModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, cold wave, ice storm, tornado, lightning, wildfire, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

New Castle County records 5.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 10.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 29.2 per 100,000 residents in New Castle County.

Homicide
5.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
29.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for New Castle County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 19702 rather than 19702 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 31 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL31 mi12,000 ft
Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood MarshallBWI59 mi10,503 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY62 mi10,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

19702 vs Glasgow

How this ZIP area compares with Glasgow as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

19702
Glasgow
Median household income
$92,446
vs
$113,982
Per capita income
$42,131
vs
$46,429
Population density
1,982/sq mi
vs
1,566/sq mi
Median home value
$346,100
vs
$373,900
Median gross rent
$1,645
vs
$2,039
Homeownership rate
60.2%
vs
83.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
39.6%
vs
37.7%
Poverty rate
7.9%
vs
8.0%
Median age
37.2
vs
43.5

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.