Chain Link - Key Facts for Sussex County, Delaware, created using Esri's Community Analyst (2024).

Chain Link for Kent County, Delaware created by Esri Community Analyst (2024)

Disaster Impact Report for Kent County, Delaware (Esri 2024)Esri Community Analyst

Delaware Department of Education, Summer Food Service program for Delaware 211, July 09, 2025Geocoded by the University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration with funding from the Delaware Council on Farm and Food Policy, July 09, 2025. Hosted on FirstMap by Mark Prettyman, DTI.

Univerity of Delaware monogram logo.

Disaster Impact Report for Sussex County, Delaware (Esri 2024)Esri Community Analyst

Located in both Kent and Sussex Counties, the Milford Downtown Development District comprises one-hundred seventy (170) acres. The district encompasses the City's historic central business district and the Mispillion River. Commercial land use makes up approximately one-third (1/3) of the land area, while the remaining two-thirds are low and moderate density residential uses. The district is easily accessible from State Route (SR) 113 or SR 1 traveling east/west along SR 14 (NE & NW Front Street). The district area includes a mixture of downtown commercial, professional offices, government facilities, public facilities (including library, museum, senior center, Mispillion Riverwalk and park areas), mixed use, single-family detached and semi-detached dwellings, apartments converted from single-family dwellings, and multi-family housing complexes.

Chain Link in New Castle County (Esri 2024) Esri Community Analyst

This map is showing the areas where the 65 and older population from the ACS 2014-2018 is 30% or greater. It is also showing the State Police stations, shelters, libraries, delaware health services, age restricted communities, and delaware bus routes and stops. By understanding resources that are within and around your community and understanding the demographics of your community, you can better prepare for an emergency.

At-Risk Population for Kent County, DelawareCreated using Esri Community Analyst

Disaster Impact Report for New Castle County, Delaware (Esri 2024)

This map is showing areas where the 65 and older population is greater using the ACS 2017-2021 by census block group. It is also showing the State Police stations, shelters, libraries, Delaware health services, age-restricted communities, Delaware bus routes and stops, vulnerable populations, as well as coastal inundation areas, and FEMA FIRM flood plain data. By understanding resources that are within and around your community and understanding the demographics of your community, you can better prepare for an emergency.

Seaford’s Downtown Development District consists of 74 acres focusing on two main arteries – High Street and Front Street, located in what was once the center of Seaford’s employment, shopping, dining, leisure and living. Seaford's Downtown Development District is adjacent to the banks of the pristine Nanticoke River. The area, anchored at the center point, is home to the City of Seaford’s municipal government and Nanticoke Memorial Hospital’s billing and foundation offices. The District consists of numerous businesses including legal, medical, insurance, accounting, retail, dining, visual and performing arts. Many of the area buildings are mixed-use properties, with surrounding residential opportunities within the district.

This GIS story map highlights initiatives undertaken in 2018 to support, develop, promote, and maintain the online Delaware Complete Communities Planning Toolbox (www.completecommunitiesde.org) . New Toolbox content, in the form of web pages, GIS Story Maps, Adobe Spark pages, videos, and infographics are designed to foster an understanding of strategies to plan and design for complete communities in Delaware. New topics developed for the Toolbox with high-impact visual content are detailed and organized by the five elements of a complete community, which are; complete streets, efficient land use, healthy and livable, inclusive and active, and sustainable and resilient.

A Complete Community is one that promotes healthy lifestyles, economic growth, and sustainability through an integrated approach to transportation planning, land use planning, and community design. The Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the University of Delaware has identified five elements of a Complete Community: 1) Complete Streets 2) Efficient Land Use 3) Healthy and Livable 4) Inclusive and Active, and 5) Sustainable and Resilient. Prepared by IPA, this GIS StoryMap showcases designated Downtown Development Districts as an economic development tool to achieve a Sustainable and Resilient community.

dictionary.com - "the quality of being suitable or adapted for use by people with disabilities"seewritehear.com - "Accessibility is the practice of making information, activities, and/or environments sensible, meaningful, and usable for as many people as possible."Making content usable for everyone regardless of abilities, because inclusive communication matters.

Estimated percent of households without any type of computer, between 2018-2022. A computer can be a desktop or laptop, a smartphone, a tablet or other portable wireless computer, or some other type of computer. Percentage calculations are suppressed in cases where the denominator of the calculation was less than 10 of the unit that is being described (e.g., households, people, householders, etc.). These values are calculated based on the total population living in households and do not take into account those living in group quarters.Source: Policy Map, Census, ACS 2018-2022University of Delaware, Institute for Public Administration with funding from Delaware Sea Grant and DEMA

Data Sources:Communities - Delaware FirstMap, Sussex County Mapping & Addressing, 04/20.Centerline roads and routes - Delaware FirstMap, DelDOT, 04/20.Schools and School Districts - Delaware Department of Education, FirstMap 04/20.Food Resources - CCC4COVID and DDA 09/20.Food Pantry = a fixed location with moderate to sizeable provisions [the user comes to the location]Pantry Closet = a small scale fixed location, such as an unattended kiosk.Mobile Pantry = food distribution that is delivered to one or more locations [the distributor comes to the users] [Schell model]Mobile Groceries = Vans that travel to one or more locations stocked with groceries for purchase [CHEER model]Meals = ready to eat meals that may be picked up at a fixed location or delivered; users call for more info - details are noted on the public-facing map linked to the CCC4COVID web siteStudent Meals = ready-to-eat meals for students at fixed locationsSome food distribution sources have multiple delivery mechanisms, that's where you'll see multiple entriesMunicipal Boundaries - Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination, FirstMap 11/20.PolicyMap Data:Long definition: Estimated percent of All Families that live in deep poverty Short definition: Estimated percent of families that live in deep poverty (at less than 50% of the poverty level), between 2014-2018. CDC Socially Vulnerable Index, 2018.ACS 2014-2018 - Delaware Census.

A map of Delaware public school districts and campus locations using publicly available data layers from State of Delaware web sites.

An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to discover outdoor recreation opportunities.