Your Future Begins in Delaware

Your Future Begins in Delaware

By the Numbers

There are so many reasons why living and working in Delaware makes good dollars and sense. Here are just a few:

#1

State for Remote Work (WalletHub 2025)

#6

Best Healthcare Quality (US News & World Report 2025)

#3

Most Dog-Friendly State (Showsight Magazine 2024)

#1

Lowest Personal Tax Burden in the Mid-Atlantic (Wallethub 2025)
Why More and More Professionals are Choosing Delaware

A favorable cost of living, an enviable East Coast location and diverse lifestyle choices mean more professionals are choosing Delaware.

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Explore the Cost of Living in Delaware

Delaware’s affordable housing, low taxes and the thriving job market in diverse industries make Delaware a first-rate place to live.

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An ideal place to live, work and play.

Delaware’s legacy of innovation and opportunity coupled with its central Mid-Atlantic location, competitive and diverse business environment, and low cost of living make it an ideal place to live, work, and play.

Live in Delaware

In Delaware, you’ll find more time for what matters. With a low cost of living, short commutes, award-winning schools, and vibrant communities, the First State makes it easy to build a meaningful life—whether you’re starting a career, growing a family, or just ready for something new.

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Work in Delaware

Delaware is where careers take root and lives flourish. A hub for innovation across finance, life sciences, technology, and manufacturing, the state offers a path to long-term growth—alongside a pace of life that prioritizes well-being and purpose beyond the workplace.

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Play in Delaware

Delaware delivers big on leisure. Paddle through coastal marshes, enjoy food truck festivals, or take a scenic bike ride through state parks. Whether you’re into live music, local art, or quiet nature escapes, you’ll find your kind of fun—just around the corner.

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Meet Your Neighbors

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Stephanie Eldridge

Co-Founder and CEO, Code Differently

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I don’t know another location where you are one person, one degree of separation, away from any need. When we look outside of our windows we see the backdrop of the companies that we serve most. When I look to the left, I see JP Morgan Chase and Capital One building that helps support our HBCU program, HBCU CSC, who also support our high school students. It is really helpful that the decision makers from these companies are actually located in Delaware.”
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Alonna Berry

Founder of The Bryan Stevenson School of Excellence (BASSE)

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What makes Delaware great “is its [small] size and access. You can have an impact here in transforming the way we think about education. Charter schools can be controversial, but they started as an opportunity for communities to innovate. That’s what BASSE is doing. We’re not trying to be big. We’re trying to build a community-based partnership and co-create what education looks like.” 
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Jonathan Whitney

Drummer and Artivist

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In Delaware, we all talk across genres. In a given day, I can run into a painter, a spoken-word poet, a jazz musician, and a classical musician and we’re all bouncing ideas off each other. People here aren’t creating art for art’s sake; they’re creating it to improve Wilmington and tell the story of the people who live here.”
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Lewis Drexel Davison

Owner of Bad Hair Day? Salon in Rehoboth

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It’s home, first and foremost. It’s accessible — you can find yourself at a red light next to the governor. I love that it’s a small state and that it’s the first state. I love that it’s a community, small enough that we can know each other.”
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Mike Pfeifer

Filmmaker 1440 Film Co.

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I love the quality of life I get living and working here in Delaware. We can be at the beaches or the mountains in about an hour. I do a little bit of traveling for shoots, but most of my work is here in Delaware.”
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