It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Delton has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Delton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Delton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Delton may be for you.
One downside of living in Delton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Delton, the average commute to work is 37.15 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Delton is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Delton isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.58% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Delton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Delton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.59% of adults in Delton have a college degree.
The per capita income in Delton in 2022 was $48,844, which is wealthy relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $195,376 for a family of four. However, Delton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Delton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Delton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Delton include German, English, Swedish, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Delton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
