Skip to content
Cost & Benefits

Cost of living in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware has about 1,370 people. Typical rent is $1,307 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $137,500 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

Simple answer

Typical rent is $1,307 a month.

Rehoboth Beach is a city in Delaware. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $137,500 a year.

Is Rehoboth Beach affordable?See benefits in Rehoboth Beach
People
1,370
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$1,307
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$137,500
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$1,486,100
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$1,498
Sussex County, DE

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware has about 1,370 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $1,486,100.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Sussex County is $1,498 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Rehoboth Beach. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

Delaware's prices sit at 99.8 when the U.S. average is 100. This place is not in a metro area with its own index, so this is the state number from BEA for 2024.

Delaware taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 0.0% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Rehoboth Beach's exact store tax.

In July 2026, a typical Delaware home paid 18.48¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Rehoboth Beach's bill.

EIA did not publish a 2025 all-grades gas price for Delaware in the table we use.

Among 48 places we list in Delaware with a rent figure, 29 have higher typical rent than Rehoboth Beach.

Nearby places

EBT nearby

USDA has a live map of stores that take SNAP. We did not copy that store list here. The downloadable file is a history file for 2005 through 2025, so the live map is the one to use.

Find SNAP stores near Rehoboth BeachWhat EBT can buy in Delaware

Locator page updated 2026-09-11. Last checked 2026-10-16.

Food stamps (SNAP) tools in Delaware

Bigger places in Delaware

Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.