Ocean View Delaware

Ocean View, located 1 mile from the Atlantic Ocean in Bethany Beach and 1 mile from the Indian River Bay, and bounded by the Assawoman Canal and White's Creek, includes a mix of year-round and seasonal properties.

Founded in 1889, the town population of 1006 full-time residents is expected to more than double in the next decade with the annexation of the Bear Trap golf course and development, which plans more than 700 homes on the southwest side of the community. Ocean View became the birthplace of the commercial broiler industry in 1923. Although Ocean View is no longer engaged in commercial growing of chickens, the village has evolved into a residential beach front community that attracts thousands of visitors during the summer season. It has become a delightful town conducive of a peaceful small town lifestyle.

Ocean View is fast becoming a bedroom community for the neighboring summer resort of Bethany Beach, with retirees and vacationers building and buying homes in town.

Today, Ocean View's business community is largely comprised of service businesses on Route 26. The town has a park with a picnic pavilion and modern playground equipment and is home to Lord Baltimore Elementary School, rated one of the best elementary schools in the state.

Ocean View, together with the towns of Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach, Lewes, Dewey Beach and Fenwick Island comprises Delaware’s beach/shore resort area, and is Sussex County’s fastest growing area.

Search for Properties in Ocean View

The Delaware Shore…Offering a Better Way of Life.