{"id":3538,"date":"2026-03-18T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:51:16","slug":"discover-delaware-our-college-town-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/discover-delaware-our-college-town-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Delaware: Our College Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Super inclusive, diverse, and overall an incredible and safe place to live in. The community is very welcoming, and it&#8217;s a great place to meet new people and to be able to form your own group of friends.&#8221;<\/em> Current resident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/places-to-live\/c\/delaware-county-oh\/reviews\/\">niche.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ohio Wesleyan is located in the City and County of Delaware, both of which are consistently ranked as great places to live, study, work, and raise a family.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>City of Delaware<\/strong>\u00a0(with nearly 44,000 residents) has been recognized by Money Magazine as one of the \u201cTop 50 Places to Live in America\u201d and by WalletHub.com for being in the 70th percentile of America\u2019s best small cities based on economic health, affordability, quality of life, safety, and education and health.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s historic downtown \u2013 steps away from OWU\u2019s campus \u2013 offers a wide variety of shopping and dining as well as seasonal farmers\u2019 markets and monthly \u201cFirst Friday\u201d celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Get to know our vibrant community of Delaware, Ohio! We are so fortunate to have such an eclectic selection of restaurants and shops within walking distance, plus so many parks, activities, and attractions nearby!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitdelohio.com\/places-to-eat\/dining-in-delaware\/\">Discover more at Destination Delaware County!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Super inclusive, diverse, and overall an incredible and safe place to live in. The community is very welcoming, and it&#8217;s a great place to meet new people and to be able to form your own group of friends.&#8221; Current resident, niche.com Ohio Wesleyan is located in the City and County of Delaware, both of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[191,190,193,189,188,192,57,154,222,194],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-students","tag-attractions","tag-city","tag-community","tag-delaware","tag-discover","tag-downtown","tag-events","tag-food","tag-park","tag-restaurants"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}