Delaware · Market data
New Castle County, DE supports 14 taxi and limousine businesses across 588,093 residents. Below: how those operators break down by size, how the market compares with its state and the country, and what the sector pays — all from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns.
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.
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| Measure | New Castle County |
|---|---|
| County | New Castle County, DE |
| State | Delaware |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 588,093 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 14 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 57 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $1.3m |
| Taxi and ridesharing establishments | 6 |
| Taxi and ridesharing employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 24 |
| Taxi and ridesharing annual payroll | $605,000 |
| Limousine establishments | 8 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag J — approximate. | 33 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $665,000 |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 12 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived14 establishments ÷ 588,093 residents × 100,000. | 2.38 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived12 of 14 establishments. | 85.7% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$1.3m payroll ÷ 57 employees. | $22,281 |
| Taxi share of taxi-plus-limousine operatorsderived6 taxi ÷ 14 taxi and limousine establishments. | 42.9% |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 97 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
New Castle County, DE has 14 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 57 people — 6 in taxi and ridesharing services and 8 in limousine service.
With only a handful of operators, most local demand is met by a few known names, and word of mouth does most of the selling.
85.7 per cent of operators in New Castle County, DE employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
Nearly every operator here employs fewer than five people. That is an owner-driver market: the person taking the booking is often the person driving, so software that needs a dedicated dispatcher to sit in front of it does not fit.
New Castle County, DE has 2.38 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are close to the national midpoint for a published county market.
Within Delaware the median is 2.38 per 100,000, so this county is denser than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $22,281 per employee across the sector in New Castle County, DE.
A figure that low usually reflects heavy part-time and split-shift working rather than low hourly rates, which makes accurate shift and per-driver accounting the difference between knowing your margin and guessing it.
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Closest by operator count, weighted towards the same state.
| County | Operators | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Henrico County, VA | 14 | 4.13 |
| Santa Barbara County, CA | 15 | 3.37 |
| Duval County, FL | 15 | 1.42 |
| Barnstable County, MA | 15 | 6.45 |
| Camden County, NJ | 15 | 2.81 |
| Somerset County, NJ | 15 | 4.20 |
| Pima County, AZ | 13 | 1.20 |
| Sonoma County, CA | 13 | 2.68 |
| Marion County, IN | 13 | 1.32 |
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