The road continues east through a mix of farms and woods with occasional residences, reaching an intersection with Millsboro Highway in Mission.

The road crosses the Delmarva Central Railroad's Indian River Subdivision line at-grade.

The road runs through farmland with some woods and homes, passing through a Mountaire Farms chicken plant and briefly gaining a center left-turn lane.

The route continues through rural areas as a two-lane road and crosses Swan Creek and Warwick Gut, bending to the northeast and passing northwest of the Nanticoke Indian Museum before coming to an intersection with DE 5 northwest of Oak Orchard.

The road heads north through residential and commercial development with some fields as it enters the Long Neck area, where it intersects DE 23.

The road runs through Angola and passes east of Burton Pond before it curves to the northeast, crossing Love Creek on the Eugene D. Bookhammer Bridge.

[3][4] The section of DE 24 east of US 113 serves as part of a primary hurricane evacuation route from the Oak Orchard and Long Neck areas to points inland while the section of DE 24 between US 13 and Millsboro Highway serves as part of a secondary hurricane evacuation route from the coastal areas.

[5] The portions of the route between Townsend Street and Delaware Avenue in Laurel and Christ Church Road and Trap Pond Road east of Laurel are designated as part of the Nanticoke Heritage Byway, a Delaware Byway.

At this time the road was under contract as a state highway between Laurel and Pepper and from Phillips Hill to east of Millsboro.

[7] The sections under contract were completed by 1924[8] and the remainder of present-day DE 24 was proposed as a state highway a year later.

[2] In 1940, a new bridge was built over Love Creek as part of improving the route east of Millsboro for traffic heading to the beaches in the summer.

[13] Construction on the first phase between Mulberry Knoll Road and DE 1 began on March 3, 2020 and was completed in early 2022.

Senator Tom Carper, DelDOT secretary Nicole Majeski, and local officials in attendance.

turns north to join DE 23 on Beaver Dam Road and the two routes continue through agricultural and wooded areas with residential developments, curving to the northeast and crossing Bundicks Branch.

The two routes curve southeast immediately to the south of the intersection between US 9/DE 404 and DE 1 and head through a mix of farmland and residential development as an undivided road.