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Public toilets in Delaware, commonly called washrooms, are found at a rate of around three public toilets per 100,000 people.

Public toilets
washroom is one of the most commonly used words for public toilet in the United States. Euphemisms are often used to avoid discussing the purpose of toilets. Words used include toilet, restroom, bathroom, lavatory and john.

A 2021 study found there were three public toilets per 100,000 people. The cleanest public toilets at a gas station in Delaware, according to the GasBuddy, in 2019 were found at Wawa.

Public toilets are often located in semi-private public accommodations like hotels, stores, restaurants and coffee shops instead of being street level municipal maintained facilities.

History
Because Prohibition saw an increase in the construction of public toilets to address the new found demand, many municipalities located outside the South built sex-segregated public toilets that were essentially the same construction inside, with the same number of stalls and layout for each.

Delaware River Waterfront Corporation examined the idea of introducing public pay toilets by JC Decaux whose upkeep was done through advertising fees to central Delaware in 2011 because a lack of them was hurting local tourist activities along the river.