New Castle County All-Ages Communities

Every all-ages community we cover in New Castle County, 24 in all, with the age-restricted ones left out. They are split the way people here actually think about the county: south of the C&D Canal and north of it, then grouped by town.

See these communities on our Delaware Community Map, with filters for county and 55+.

To see New Castle with the 55+ communities included, use every New Castle County community, or New Castle County 55+ communities for the age-restricted ones on their own.

South of the Canal

Below the C&D Canal, Middletown, Townsend and Odessa. Newer construction, larger lots and more land per dollar, with the canal bridges between here and Wilmington. 14 communities.

Middletown

Townsend

North of the Canal

Above the C&D Canal, Wilmington, Newark, Bear and New Castle. Closer to the city, the hospitals, the university and the Philadelphia corridor, with established neighbourhoods and shorter commutes north. 10 communities.

Bear

Hockessin

New Castle

Newark

Wilmington