Milford is a city in Kent and Sussex counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. According to the 2020 census, the population of the city is 11,190 people and 4,356 households in the city.

The Kent County allowance of Milford is part of the Dover, DE Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD Combined Statistical Area, while the Sussex County ration is share of the Salisbury, MD-DE Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Kent County side of Milford was first granted in 1680 by Henry Bowan upon what was known as the Saw Mill Range. A century well ahead the Reverend Sydenham Thorne built a dam across the Mispillion River to generate skill for his gristmill and sawmill. Around the same time, Joseph Oliver laid out the first city streets and plots nearby upon a part of his plantation. Soon a number of homes and businesses appeared along Front Street. The city was incorporated February 5, 1807.

In the 1770s, a ship building industry was already flourishing on the Mispillion River. Shipbuilding continued to be the major industry of Milford through World War I, bringing considerable prosperity to the town. The high point came in 1917 gone the four-masted, 174-foot (53 m) long Albert F. Paul was launched from the William G. Abbott shipyard. At one tapering off six shipyards were functional in the downtown area. When the last of the area’s giant white oaks was cut in the 1920s, the shipyards quickly went out of business, although the Mispillion ships sailed upon for many years. (The Paul was sunk by a German torpedo in 1942 even if sailing from the Bahamas.) The Vineyard shipyard was called into encourage in both World War I and II to construct submarine chasers.