Arden, Delaware.
Typical home $354,295 (-14.7% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $60,996 -15%
- $415,291$354,295 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $299 +0%
- $353,996$354,295 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Arden$1,860
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Arden, DE fell 14.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arden, New Castle County, Delaware
Arden is a village of 430 people in New Castle County. Unemployment in New Castle County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in New Castle County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Arden is a very small village in New Castle County, Delaware, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are valued above what is typical for many places, and the share of residents living in poverty is low. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, and summers turn properly hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Residents of Arden work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, then banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across New Castle County, the largest workplaces include the University of Delaware, a general hospital at 50 Christiana, and the Christina School District. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Close to home, a short drive away, are the Delaware Art Museum and Fort Christina, a fort tied to the area's earliest history, along with the Christina River. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Independence Hall, an historic site in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the city's major museums.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in New Castle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. New Castle County had 306,171 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marcus Hook weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in New Castle County
- 50 ChristianaGeneral medical and surgical hospitals11,886
- University of DelawareUniversity or college5,081
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,363
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,902
- Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. - STEElectrical contractors2,245
- Christina School DistrictSchool district2,219FTE
- Alfred I Dupont Hosp for ChildrenChildren's hospital2,142FTE
- Red Clay Consolidated School DistrictSchool district2,116FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 443 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72,630 people in all across the county; Arden has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arden’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on New Castle County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Arden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arden$354,295
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Arden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.