Hockessin is a census-designated place (CDP) in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 13,527 at the 2010 census.

Hockessin came into existence as a Tiny village in 1688 subsequent to several families granted in the area. The village was named after the Lenape word hokes, meaning good bark or good bark hill. There is a second and more likely lineage for the name. While the word Hockessin does see like a Native American word, the reveal Hockessin did not appear in up on any in the future maps until many years after the Hockessin Meeting House was built and what is now the Village of Hockessin was never arranged by the Native Americans, while they did have a hunting camp nearby. There was no town declare Hockessin and the Place was referred to as Mill Creek Hundred. The actual broadcast is believed to be derived from one of the first decided properties which was named Occasion and contracted by William Cox in 1726 and with the location of the first Quaker meetings in the Place before Hockessin Meeting House was built a few years later. The antediluvian known use of the word Occasion was in 1734 in a property attainment for this property. And the road to the Hockessin Meeting House, currently Old Wilmington Road, was written as Ockession Road on a map in 1808. The first Roman Catholic church in Delaware was located in Hockessin. Missionary priests from Maryland conventional the Coffee Run Mission in 1790.

The A. Armstrong Farm, Coffee Run Mission Site, Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse, T. Pierson Farm, Public School No. 29, Springer Farm, and Wilmington and Western Railroad are listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. More recently supplementary sites to the National Register of Historic Places include: Tweed’s Tavern, the home of Negro league baseball performer James “Nip” Winters, Colored School #107C, St. John the Evangelist Church, the Daniel Nichols house, and the Cox/Phillips/Mitchell Agricultural Complex.

The community is close the northwestern attach of Delaware, within 1.2 mi (1.9 km) of the Pennsylvania border on the east bank of Mill Creek.