Millville is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population in 2020 was 1,825, It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area and lies within Baltimore Hundred.
Geography
Millville is located at (38.5495569, –75.1232391), approximately west of the Atlantic Ocean and about south of Indian River Bay. It is contiguous on the east with Ocean View, and bordered on the north, west and south by unincorporated portions of Sussex County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , in which all of it was land.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Millville had a population of 1,825. The median age was 64.0 years. 8.0% of residents were under the age of 18 and 46.4% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 84.2 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 81.7 males age 18 and over.
99.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 1.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 928 households in Millville, of which 12.4% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 60.8% were married-couple households, 9.5% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 26.2% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 27.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The Annual Municipal Election is held on the first Saturday in March. Anyone 18 years old or older registered to vote in Millville may run for the town council as long as the candidate has lived in Millville for at least 90 days before the date of that years election. it purchased its first motor-driven firefighting vehicle in 1936 and today operates 16 vehicles.
Sussex County handled all land use regulation in Millville until 1993, when Millville itself began to pass zoning ordinances to control growth.
History
The early settlement of the Millville area by Europeans is poorly recorded, although it is known that the swampy, marshy nature of much of the land of eastern Baltimore Hundred in southeastern Delaware when the first Europeans arrived led them to establish plantations on higher ground in the vicinity of what are now Millville, Ocean View, and Clarksville. Millville itself grew up around a steam-powered sawmill operated by Captain Peter Townshend in the late 19th century, becoming a center for lumber, agricultural products, and commercial fishing. and has grown in population only very slowly since,