Pike Creek, Delaware
CDP
About Pike Creek
Pike Creek is a small unincorporated community in northwestern Delaware.
Pike Creek holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 2.69 square miles.
📰 Pike Creek News Today
- Sanitation worker hurt after being run over by trash truck in Pike Creek, Delaware 6abc Philadelphia · Jul 27
- Pike Creek sports bar and restaurant opening this fall, now hiring The News Journal · Jul 22
- Pike Creek Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 23
- Motorcyclist dies in Pike Creek wreck WDEL · May 18
- Bicyclist Hit & Hurt By Vehicle on Mill Creek Rd in Pike Creek, DE Murphy & Landon · Jun 5
Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.
What Makes Pike Creek Unique
- The only place in America named Pike Creek — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
- 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
- A tight community feel that bigger cities can't replicate.
- Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
- Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 3 miles.
📍 Neighborhoods in Pike Creek
📍 Adare Village📍 Breckenridge📍 Cornish Hills📍 Dennison Ridge📍 Hockessin Chase📍 Hockessin Mews📍 Jarrell Farms📍 Tall Trees📍 Westmont
Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.
🍽️ Where to Eat in Pike Creek
- El Diablo Burritos, Pike Creek — tex-mex
- Purebread Deli
- Ruby Tuesday — american
- Tropical Smoothie Cafe (café)
- Valle Cucina Italian Steakhouse
- Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza — pizza
- Brew HaHa! (café)
- Piree's Piri Piri Grill
- Sushi Xtreme — sushi
- Tyler's
Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.
🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Pike Creek
- Delcaste Recreation Area reviews ★
- Delcastle Recreation Park reviews ★
- Mendenhall Village Park reviews ★
- New Castle County Dunlinden Park reviews ★
- Sherwood II reviews ★
- Sherwood Park reviews ★
- Weather Hill Farm Park reviews ★
- Wood Creek reviews ★
Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.
⚡ Quick Facts
StateDelaware
TypeCDP
Population (2024)—
Land area2.69 sq mi
Coordinates39.7487, -75.6950