State prices
Near normalDelaware propane prices
Current residential price: $3.808/gal. EIA weekly survey (October-March).
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
Cite
- Residential
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Delaware
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.808/gal, 8.5% above the 5-yr median.
Delaware residential propane rose to $3.808/gal for the week ending October 26, up 1.4% week over week and 11.2% year over year. The price sits 8.5% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.808/gal | $3.755/gal | +1.4% |
| Year over year | $3.808/gal | $3.426/gal | +11.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.808/gal | $3.509/gal | +8.5% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs Central Atlantic average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.750/gal | $3.708/gal (Oct 5) | $3.808/gal (Oct 26) | +17.2 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.572/gal | $3.353/gal (Oct 13) | $3.744/gal (Mar 23) | +21.7 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.790/gal | $3.650/gal (Oct 28) | $3.939/gal (Jan 27) | +44.9 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.577/gal | $3.473/gal (Oct 2) | $3.676/gal (Feb 19) | +37.2 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.448/gal | $3.408/gal (Jan 2) | $3.509/gal (Oct 24) | +18.6 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.374/gal | $3.091/gal (Oct 4) | $3.701/gal (Mar 14) | +4.7 cents |
Each season runs October through March. The average is the simple mean of that season's weekly readings, and the low and high name their survey week. The last column is Delaware's residential price minus the Central Atlantic residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 36,979 |
| Share of occupied homes | 9.2% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 402,038 |
| National rank by propane share | #12 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Delaware residential propane hit $3.755/gal through 2026-10-19, up 0.7% from the prior week and up 9.5% year over year. The price sits 7.5% above the 5-year median, per EIA's weekly survey.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Residential prices hit $3.729/gal, up 0.6% on the week and 11.2% from a year ago, sitting 7.2% above the 5-year median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Delaware residential propane came in at $3.731/gal in the March 30 survey, 2% above the 4-yr median. The price fell 0.3% on the week and stands 2.9% below year-ago levels.
About Delaware propane prices
Delaware is small, flat and mostly served by natural gas in the north, so propane demand concentrates in Sussex County and the farm country below the canal. Poultry is the other load: Delmarva broiler houses run propane brooders, and that demand starts before home heating does. Supply comes off Delaware River terminals, the same tankage that serves southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey.
This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Delaware propane dealers weekly through the October to March heating season and publishes the state figure Wednesday afternoon; the series then goes quiet until October. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Delaware, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the Central Atlantic price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 9.2% of occupied Delaware homes, well above the national middle. That is a large block of homes to keep supplied through a cold January.
For context beyond one state, Delaware sits in the Central Atlantic district: regional prices and Central Atlantic propane stocks. A price per gallon is not a delivery ticket. The propane usage calculator estimates gallons burned and what a fill costs at the current Delaware survey price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Delaware?
Delaware's residential propane price is $3.808/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in Delaware?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Delaware's residential price set its season high in March in two of the last five heating seasons, October in one, January in one and February in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and January in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 31.9 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that the Central Atlantic carries the heaviest East Coast demand, concentrated upstate in New York and across rural Pennsylvania, and draws on Marcellus gas processing as well as Gulf Coast pipeline supply. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the Delaware propane price compare with the Central Atlantic average?
Delaware's residential propane price averaged above the Central Atlantic average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 4.7 cents and 44.9 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Delaware was at $3.808/gal against $3.639/gal for the Central Atlantic average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Central Atlantic propane prices carries the district's own chart.
Why is there no wholesale propane price for Delaware?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Delaware, so the chart above carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the Central Atlantic price page, and the Mont Belvieu spot price is the national wholesale benchmark. How propane is priced walks through the delivered-service stack that separates a rack gallon from a delivered one.