Newark is a small city in Delaware known for its green spaces, trout-filled creek, and for being home to the University of Delaware. Welsh and Scots-Irish settlers founded the city in 1694. Today, it spans 9.4 square miles of straight and curvilinear streets. Its median age is 24.7 (2022). Sales, education, and administration are among the main drivers of its economy.

Sitting at the confluence of the Christina and Delaware rivers, on the site of the first Swedish settlement in North America, is Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1638, most of the 17.1 square-mile city is laid out on a grid pattern on flat land, with a hilly west side. Its median age is 35.9 (2022), and it’s a center for banking, legal services, and insurance.