State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in Delaware

Coverage: all 3 counties

GradeLocal lists 3,762 Delaware restaurants. Their average score is 78.9, a C. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

3,762restaurants listed

78.9 · Caverage score

3counties covered

Oct 21, 2026latest inspection date

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Who inspects restaurants in Delaware

Delaware Division of Public Health. The state's open data only lists inspections that found violations, so clean inspections are mostly missing and grades lean lower.

Coverage: Statewide, all 3 counties. All sources

What Delaware publishes

The agencies behind our Delaware listings publish violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Delaware score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades Delaware restaurants

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our Delaware data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
1 violation	B	1,197
2 violations	B	748
3 violations	C	444
0 violations	A	425
4 violations	C	344
5 violations	C	194
6 violations	D	136
7 violations	D	83

How Delaware restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 3,762 listings.

425

11.3% · grade A

1,945

51.7% · grade B

982

26.1% · grade C

410

10.9% · grade D

Inspection dates in our Delaware data run from Oct 1, 2024 to Oct 21, 2026. 2,530 of the 3,762 listings (67.3%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 21, 2026, our latest record. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in Delaware

Every A-grade place in our Delaware data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in Delaware

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Kent County	718	73.5 · C
New Castle County	2,097	81.2 · B
Sussex County	947	77.9 · C

Questions about Delaware grades

Who inspects restaurants in Delaware?

Delaware Division of Public Health. The state's open data only lists inspections that found violations, so clean inspections are mostly missing and grades lean lower.

What does Delaware publish: a score, a letter or something else?

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in Delaware?

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many Delaware restaurants are on GradeLocal?

3,762 restaurants in 3 counties. The average score is 78.9, a C. 11.3% have an A.

How current are the Delaware grades?

Inspection dates in our Delaware data run from Oct 1, 2024 to Oct 21, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.