Work and Jobs in Upper Christiana, Delaware (DE) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
The most common industries in Upper Christiana are: Finance & insurance (17.0% of civilian employees), Health care (9.2% of civilian employees), Educational services (7.5% of civilian employees). 76.1% of workers are employees of private companies, which is 7.5% greater than the rate of 70.4% across the entire state of Delaware.
Most common industries
Most common industries | |||
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Industry | All | Males | Females |
Finance and insurance | 17.0% (2,355) | 11.9% (856) | 22.5% (1,499) |
Health care | 9.2% (1,271) | 3.8% (271) | 15.0% (1,000) |
Educational services | 7.5% (1,044) | 5.3% (382) | 9.9% (662) |
Professional, scientific, and technical services | 6.5% (908) | 6.4% (464) | 6.7% (444) |
Construction | 6.0% (834) | 10.2% (736) | 1.5% (98) |
Accommodation and food services | 5.1% (706) | 5.2% (374) | 5.0% (332) |
Chemicals | 3.7% (511) | 5.1% (364) | 2.2% (147) |
Administrative and support and waste management services | 3.6% (493) | 3.7% (267) | 3.4% (226) |
Public administration | 3.1% (424) | 3.2% (233) | 2.9% (191) |
Transportation equipment | 3.0% (418) | 5.1% (371) | 0.7% (47) |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 2.3% (321) | 2.1% (150) | 2.6% (171) |
Social assistance | 2.3% (315) | 0.2% (18) | 4.4% (297) |
Food and beverage stores | 1.8% (244) | 1.7% (124) | 1.8% (120) |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 1.6% (222) | 1.9% (140) | 1.2% (82) |
Department and other general merchandise stores | 1.6% (221) | 1.2% (86) | 2.0% (135) |
Personal and laundry services | 1.6% (220) | 1.3% (91) | 1.9% (129) |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 1.5% (207) | 1.0% (72) | 2.0% (135) |
Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 1.3% (178) | 1.8% (133) | 0.7% (45) |
U. S. Postal service | 1.2% (164) | 1.4% (101) | 0.9% (63) |
Broadcasting and telecommunications | 1.0% (144) | 1.1% (82) | 0.9% (62) |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 1.0% (142) | 1.3% (94) | 0.7% (48) |
Utilities | 1.0% (137) | 1.9% (137) | 0.0% (0) |
Real estate and rental and leasing | 0.9% (131) | 0.8% (56) | 1.1% (75) |
Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.9% (130) | 1.4% (99) | 0.5% (31) |
Truck transportation | 0.9% (125) | 1.4% (101) | 0.4% (24) |
Repair and maintenance | 0.9% (122) | 1.4% (101) | 0.3% (21) |
Computer and electronic products | 0.8% (114) | 1.2% (85) | 0.4% (29) |
Metal and metal products | 0.8% (105) | 0.9% (64) | 0.6% (41) |
Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 0.7% (94) | 0.8% (58) | 0.5% (36) |
Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.7% (91) | 1.1% (81) | 0.1% (10) |
Printing and related support activities | 0.6% (81) | 0.7% (53) | 0.4% (28) |
Plastics and rubber products | 0.6% (79) | 0.8% (61) | 0.3% (18) |
Paper | 0.6% (79) | 1.0% (70) | 0.1% (9) |
Machinery | 0.6% (78) | 0.7% (53) | 0.4% (25) |
Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.6% (77) | 0.7% (54) | 0.3% (23) |
Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.5% (71) | 0.6% (46) | 0.4% (25) |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 0.5% (66) | 0.7% (54) | 0.2% (12) |
Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 0.5% (64) | 0.3% (20) | 0.7% (44) |
Radio, TV, and computer stores | 0.4% (59) | 0.7% (50) | 0.1% (9) |
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses | 0.4% (58) | 0.3% (19) | 0.6% (39) |
Air transportation | 0.3% (44) | 0.5% (34) | 0.1% (10) |
Other direct selling establishments | 0.3% (43) | 0.1% (7) | 0.5% (36) |
Rail transportation | 0.3% (43) | 0.5% (38) | 0.1% (5) |
Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.3% (40) | 0.2% (16) | 0.4% (24) |
Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (36) | 0.5% (36) | 0.0% (0) |
Petroleum and coal products | 0.2% (34) | 0.5% (34) | 0.0% (0) |
Warehousing and storage | 0.2% (32) | 0.4% (32) | 0.0% (0) |
Textile mills and textile products | 0.2% (32) | 0.2% (17) | 0.2% (15) |
Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (31) | 0.4% (31) | 0.0% (0) |
Food | 0.2% (28) | 0.3% (22) | 0.1% (6) |
Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (27) | 0.0% (0) | 0.4% (27) |
Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (26) | 0.4% (26) | 0.0% (0) |
Apparel, fabrics, and notions merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (25) | 0.2% (17) | 0.1% (8) |
Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (24) | 0.1% (4) | 0.3% (20) |
Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.1% (20) | 0.2% (13) | 0.1% (7) |
Lumber and other construction materials merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (20) | 0.1% (5) | 0.2% (15) |
Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (19) | 0.2% (13) | 0.1% (6) |
Alcoholic beverages merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (19) | 0.3% (19) | 0.0% (0) |
Apparel | 0.1% (18) | 0.2% (11) | 0.1% (7) |
Paper and paper products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (17) | 0.2% (17) | 0.0% (0) |
Metals and minerals, except petroleum, merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (17) | 0.2% (17) | 0.0% (0) |
Wood products | 0.1% (16) | 0.2% (16) | 0.0% (0) |
Gasoline stations | 0.1% (15) | 0.1% (7) | 0.1% (8) |
Data processing, libraries, and other information services | 0.1% (15) | 0.1% (10) | 0.1% (5) |
Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (15) | 0.2% (15) | 0.0% (0) |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 0.1% (15) | 0.2% (15) | 0.0% (0) |
Music stores | 0.1% (14) | 0.2% (14) | 0.0% (0) |
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.1% (14) | 0.2% (14) | 0.0% (0) |
Recyclable material merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (13) | 0.2% (13) | 0.0% (0) |
Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (9) | 0.1% (9) | 0.0% (0) |
Unemployment in Upper Christiana
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 2.8%Males
- 3.4%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 6.8%Males
- 1.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native residents
- 20.0%Males
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 7.4%Males
- 4.3%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 5.6%Males
- 13.6%Females
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 6.2%Males
- 15.1%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 3.1%Males
- 11.0%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
<5am:
Upper Christiana: | 3.3% (453) |
Delaware: | 2.8% (10,365) |
5:30am:
Upper Christiana: | 1.3% (183) |
Delaware: | 2.2% (8,081) |
6am:
Upper Christiana: | 3.3% (445) |
Delaware: | 3.5% (13,243) |
6:30am:
Upper Christiana: | 7.5% (1,020) |
Delaware: | 7.7% (28,805) |
7am:
Upper Christiana: | 14.1% (1,923) |
Delaware: | 11.4% (42,698) |
7:30am:
Upper Christiana: | 16.9% (2,307) |
Delaware: | 16.6% (61,926) |
8am:
Upper Christiana: | 16.3% (2,216) |
Delaware: | 16.2% (60,395) |
8:30am:
Upper Christiana: | 10.1% (1,380) |
Delaware: | 10.6% (39,554) |
9am:
Upper Christiana: | 4.4% (595) |
Delaware: | 5.0% (18,691) |
10am:
Upper Christiana: | 3.4% (467) |
Delaware: | 4.7% (17,404) |
11am:
Upper Christiana: | 2.2% (300) |
Delaware: | 2.0% (7,556) |
12pm:
Upper Christiana: | 0.9% (123) |
Delaware: | 1.0% (3,667) |
4pm:
Upper Christiana: | 7.6% (1,029) |
Delaware: | 6.9% (25,586) |
>4pm:
Upper Christiana: | 7.0% (953) |
Delaware: | 6.4% (24,008) |
Travel time to work
Less than 5 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 1.1% (153) |
Delaware: | 2.6% (9,817) |
5 to 9 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 7.7% (1,052) |
Delaware: | 9.9% (37,056) |
10 to 14 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 17.2% (2,348) |
Delaware: | 15.2% (56,533) |
15 to 19 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 20.5% (2,792) |
Delaware: | 17.5% (65,194) |
20 to 24 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 16.8% (2,282) |
Delaware: | 16.5% (61,600) |
25 to 29 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 5.6% (764) |
Delaware: | 6.7% (25,011) |
30 to 34 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 12.9% (1,760) |
Delaware: | 12.0% (44,932) |
35 to 39 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 1.7% (227) |
Delaware: | 2.3% (8,671) |
40 to 44 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 2.4% (332) |
Delaware: | 2.6% (9,805) |
45 to 59 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 5.7% (772) |
Delaware: | 5.6% (20,867) |
60 to 89 minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 4.5% (613) |
Delaware: | 3.8% (14,200) |
90 or more minutes:
Upper Christiana: | 2.2% (299) |
Delaware: | 2.2% (8,293) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
Upper Christiana: | 82.6% (11,245) |
Delaware: | 79.2% (295,413) |
Carpooled:
Upper Christiana: | 11.7% (1,587) |
Delaware: | 11.5% (42,990) |
Bus or trolley bus:
Upper Christiana: | 1.9% (254) |
Delaware: | 2.4% (8,770) |
Railroad:
Upper Christiana: | 0.8% (113) |
Delaware: | 0.4% (1,361) |
Motorcycle:
Upper Christiana: | 0.1% (10) |
Delaware: | 0.1% (359) |
Walked:
Upper Christiana: | 1.0% (141) |
Delaware: | 2.6% (9,637) |
Other means:
Upper Christiana: | 0.3% (44) |
Delaware: | 0.6% (2,375) |
Private vehicle occupancy
Drove alone:
Upper Christiana: | 87.6% (11,245) |
Delaware: | 87.3% (295,413) |
In 2 person carpool:
Upper Christiana: | 10.3% (1,316) |
Delaware: | 10.1% (34,179) |
In 3 person carpool:
Upper Christiana: | 1.8% (228) |
Delaware: | 1.6% (5,574) |
In 4 person carpool:
Upper Christiana: | 0.2% (27) |
Delaware: | 0.5% (1,816) |
In 5-6 person carpool:
Upper Christiana: | 0.1% (10) |
Delaware: | 0.3% (852) |
In 7+ person carpool:
Upper Christiana: | 0.0% (6) |
Delaware: | 0.2% (569) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
Upper Christiana: | 76.1% (10,561) |
Delaware: | 70.4% (265,154) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
Upper Christiana: | 1.8% (255) |
Delaware: | 3.3% (12,474) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
Upper Christiana: | 8.5% (1,174) |
Delaware: | 7.4% (27,793) |
Local government workers:
Upper Christiana: | 1.6% (223) |
Delaware: | 2.8% (10,645) |
State government workers:
Upper Christiana: | 6.7% (929) |
Delaware: | 8.8% (33,093) |
Federal government workers:
Upper Christiana: | 2.1% (288) |
Delaware: | 2.2% (8,305) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
Upper Christiana: | 3.1% (426) |
Delaware: | 5.0% (18,686) |
Unpaid family workers:
Upper Christiana: | 0.2% (24) |
Delaware: | 0.2% (661) |
Employee of private company - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 80.3% (5,785) |
Delaware: | 73.1% (142,469) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 2.1% (149) |
Delaware: | 4.7% (9,084) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 4.7% (338) |
Delaware: | 4.5% (8,848) |
Local government workers - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 1.0% (75) |
Delaware: | 2.7% (5,166) |
State government workers - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 6.1% (437) |
Delaware: | 6.5% (12,625) |
Federal government workers - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 2.4% (171) |
Delaware: | 2.5% (4,955) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 3.1% (225) |
Delaware: | 5.8% (11,349) |
Unpaid family workers - Males:
Upper Christiana: | 0.3% (24) |
Delaware: | 0.1% (292) |
Employee of private company - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 71.5% (4,776) |
Delaware: | 67.4% (122,685) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 1.6% (106) |
Delaware: | 1.9% (3,390) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 12.5% (836) |
Delaware: | 10.4% (18,945) |
Local government workers - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 2.2% (148) |
Delaware: | 3.0% (5,479) |
State government workers - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 7.4% (492) |
Delaware: | 11.2% (20,468) |
Federal government workers - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 1.8% (117) |
Delaware: | 1.8% (3,350) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
Upper Christiana: | 3.0% (201) |
Delaware: | 4.0% (7,337) |