Town file
Hockessin, Delaware
Hockessin, Delaware (New Castle County, Delaware) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 367, "Band Names & Blood Stains" (2 March 2023). Hockessin is a small town of about 13,600 people in New Castle County, north-west Delaware, twenty minutes from Wilmington.
- Town
- Hockessin
- County
- New Castle County
- State
- Delaware
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 367
- Approximate location
- 39.784, -75.681
Episode 367 / 2 March 2023 / 169 min / full
Band Names & Blood Stains
"It's about 20 minutes to Wilmington, Delaware... Newcastle County, uh Area Code 302." about 0:06:36
The case: Murder of Dr Martin and Ethel Cohen (November 12, 1988); Murder of Conrad Lutz (February 24, 1990). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2023
- Population
- 13,600
- Median age
- 47.8
- Median household income
- $121,432 a year
- Median home value
- $481,100
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $1,523
- Cost of living
- 125
- Religious
- 46.9%
- Property crime
- right at average, almost exactly
- Violent crime
- exactly average
History, in brief
- Hockessin is about 20 minutes from Wilmington, Delaware, and about an hour from Cheswold. about 0:06:22
- The name is believed to come from one of the first settled properties, called Occasion, settled by William Cox. about 0:06:46
- The area was the location of the first Quaker meetings before a meeting house was built. about 0:06:55
- The earliest known use of the name was in a 1734 property deed. about 0:07:25
- Missionary priests from Maryland established the Coffee Run Mission in 1790. about 0:07:45
The reviews read out
5 stars
"They met all their closest friends here; it is a small, safe town and they used to walk all through town to go to Wawa for fun."about 0:08:10
5 stars
"Employed at the same restaurant for three years, the best job ever, and they love the town."about 0:08:59
5 stars
"Peaceful areas for introverted people, forests and trees covering most of it, ancient brick buildings, good air quality, and houses on hills with distant neighbours."about 0:09:10
4 stars
"A nice place for everyone, in the Red Clay School District, with safe and kind people and good schools; written for a college scholarship."about 0:10:32
3 stars
"Could be worse, but it smells like fertilizer some days, and Delaware is only a temporary situation; don't move there if you are not from there."about 0:12:11
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Wilmington, Delaware8.6 miles
- New Castle, Delaware9.9 miles
- Claymont, Delaware12 miles
- Chester, Pennsylvania17 miles
- Port Penn, Delaware19 miles
- Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania26 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.