The cheapest towns on file

Rehoboth Beach is the cheapest city average in Delaware at about $201 a month for a 40-year-old driver with a clean record. The whole Sussex County band runs cheap, with Lewes, Georgetown, Milford and Seaford all sitting at or under the Sussex County average of about $210 a month.

At the other end, the New Castle County corridor is the most expensive part of the state: New Castle city averages about $293 a month and Wilmington about $282, both well over the statewide Delaware average of about $241 a month.

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What makes one town cheaper

Three things drive the town-to-town spread: traffic density, claim frequency, and how insurers price the ZIP code. The beach towns see seasonal traffic but fewer year-round commuters, and their filed rates reflect that. The I-95 corridor carries the state’s heaviest traffic and its highest claim counts, so insurers price it accordingly.

The cheapest average is not the cheapest rate for you. Drivers who shop their exact ZIP code and compare carriers regularly routinely land below their town’s average, because filed averages are just the middle of what carriers charge in that town.

Cheapest county, cheapest policy

Sussex County is the cheapest county band at about $210 a month, Kent County runs about $223, and New Castle County about $274. Minimum-coverage policies run about $111 a month statewide on average, and the same county ordering holds for them.