Brookside, Delaware

About Brookside

Brookside is a small unincorporated community in northwestern Delaware.

Brookside holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 3.88 square miles.

📰 Brookside News Today

• Brookside Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 26
• Weather Forecast and Conditions for Brookside, 19713, Newark, Delaware - The Weather Channel | Weather.com The Weather Channel · Jul 18
• State Police Investigating Fatal Pedestrian Crash in Wilmington Delaware State Police (.gov) · Jun 25
• Several people hospitalized after apartment catches fire in Newark, Delaware NBC10 Philadelphia · Apr 21
• Brookside apartment fire injures six WDEL · Apr 21

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

📰 Local News

Read the latest Delaware headlines on our news site, Bless News Daily.

What Makes Brookside Unique

• One of 5 places in the US named Brookside — but the Delaware one has a character all its own.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northwestern Delaware, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 5 miles.

📍 Neighborhoods in Brookside

Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Brookside

• Applebee's — american
• Bahama Breeze
• Bertucci's — pizza
• Bob Evans — american
• CAVA — mediterranean
• Cheddar's — american
• Chili's — tex-mex
• Crab Du Jour — seafood
• Dragon City — chinese
• Firebirds Wood Fired Grill

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · click a restaurant to read or write reviews.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Brookside

• Cool Run Park reviews ★
• Hann Park reviews ★
• Leathermans Run park reviews ★
• Lewden-Green Park reviews ★
• Rutherford Park reviews ★
• Stafford Park reviews ★
• Weiss Park reviews ★
• Windy Mill Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

⚡ Quick Facts

🌤️ Current Weather

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Source: Open-Meteo

🗺️ Map of Brookside

🏘️ Nearby Communities