Most Expensive Suburb in Delaware: North Star
Median home price: $395,000
Cost-of-living index: 175
Nonretail spending index: 176
Location: about 12 miles west of Wilmington
Population: 8,415
In North Star, a suburb in New Castle County close to the Pennsylvania border, the cost of living is not only above the state average; it's also 41.8 percent higher than the U.S. average, according to Sperling's BestPlaces. The median household income in North Star was $110,616, according to 2000 Census data.

























































