Cost of living in New Castle County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $1,860 a month.
That HUD number covers New Castle County, Delaware, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $1,438
- 1 bed
- $1,558
- 2 bed
- $1,860
- 3 bed
- $2,216
- 4 bed
- $2,445
This county is in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 102.6 (U.S. = 100).
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Towns in this county
- Wilmington · 71,727 people
- Newark · 30,330 people
- Middletown · 24,661 people
- Bear · 22,370 people
- Glasgow · 15,546 people
- Brookside · 15,115 people
- Hockessin · 13,439 people
- Pike Creek Valley · 12,431 people
- Claymont · 8,786 people
- Wilmington Manor · 8,214 people
- North Star · 7,834 people
- Pike Creek · 7,129 people
- Edgemoor · 6,349 people
- Elsmere · 6,203 people
- New Castle · 5,579 people
- Greenville · 3,713 people
- Townsend · 2,832 people
- Delaware City · 1,950 people
- St. Georges · 1,530 people
- Bellefonte · 1,388 people