The paper examined the socio-economic factors of development in the Delta
state of Nigeria. The major source of data is secondary and the statistical
technique is the step-wise multiple regression. The household income was
used as an index of development while the socio-economic variables included
population, education, and employment, capital water projects, housing unit,
health centres, industries and police station. Four key socio-economic
variables of population, health centres, employment and capital water
projects were identified as being responsible for 80% of the variation in the
development of Delta state of Nigeria among other variables. Solutions to
identified problems were proffered.