What the numbers mean for dating in Delaware
Delaware crossed the one-million-resident mark only recently and now stands at about 1.03 million, with an estimated 155,000 women aged 18 to 44 — under 0.3% of the national pool. The state's dating geography is really two markets: New Castle County in the north, where Wilmington sits inside the greater Philadelphia metro of six-plus million, and the slower-paced Sussex County beaches in the south, which draw a heavy stream of retirees.
That retiree inflow shows up in the numbers: Delaware's median age of 41.5 is one of the highest in the country, even though the Newark area around the University of Delaware stays youthful. About 35% of women 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, and roughly 36% of adult women have never married. Like most of the Mid-Atlantic, Delaware skews modestly female overall, at around 106 women per 100 men across all ages.
A national probability from our calculator scales roughly with a state's share of the US population: preferences matching 1% of US women translate to about 1,550 women in Delaware. State demographics like education and marriage rates shift the real figure up or down.
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Methodology note
Estimates combine 2023 Census Bureau state population figures with American Community Survey age, sex, education, and marital status distributions. Figures are rounded estimates for statistical education, not precise counts. See our methodology and data sources.