Trinity Profile - 2026

WILMINGTON AREA

Wilmington Area

Wilmington, Delaware is a city of about 73,176 residents, centrally located in New Castle County, Delaware’s most northern and most populated of its three counties, at about 588,093 people. The state of Delaware has 1.052M residents. The Wilmington area o ers a wide array of sites and activities for people of all ages. Situated on the Christina River, Wilmington o ers a wealth of activities within twenty- ve miles of the city, from world-class museums such as Winterthur Museum and Gardens and Longwood Gardens, both former duPont estates, Revolutionary War battle elds, the First State National Historic Park, and Historic New Castle, an eighteenth century town on the Delaware River, which has homes of several signers of the Declaration of Independence and was the location of the Continental Congress meetings before they met in Philadelphia. WalletHub ranked Delaware's public schools 12th overall, but rst in safety. This ranking considered factors like the number of students bringing weapons to school, school shootings, and disciplinary incidents, according to The News Journal (Delawareonline.com); WalletHub's ranking also considered quality, where Delaware ranked 30th. Parents with school-aged children will bene t from the A-rated per Niche.com, Brandywine and Red Clay School Districts, along with a multitude of nationally recognized private schools in New Castle County, such as St. Andrews School in Middletown, where the 1989 movie, Dead Poets Society, was lmed. Every month, the city hosts events that bring thousands of visitors to the area, such as the Wilmington Flower Market, the Cli ord Brown Jazz Festival, and the Brandywine Festival of the Arts. We celebrate our cultural diversity with the Holy Trinity Greek Festival, St. Anthony’s Italian Festival, the Bob Marley Festival (Bob Marley lived and worked in Wilmington), the Hispanic Festival, the German

Saengerbund Delaware, and the Sankta Lucia at our very own Old Swedes Church. Wilmington boasts restaurants of a variety of ethnic cuisines as well as mom and pop style diners, several of which were featured on the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Wilmington’s central location o ers a variety of two-hour regional trips: the beaches in Sussex County, New York City, the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.. Philadelphia is about thirty miles north of Wilmington. Check out this link to learn more about Wilmington DE https://www.visitwilmingtonde.com/ As the city boasts in its slogan, “Wilmington – in the middle of it all.”

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