Bellefonte, Delaware.
Typical home $303,228 (+0.1% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$780 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $190 +0%
- $303,038$303,228 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,168 +18%
- $257,059$303,228 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.
- Bellefonte$1,592
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Bellefonte, DE rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bellefonte, New Castle County, Delaware
Bellefonte is a town of 1,225 people in New Castle County. Half its households earn more than $90,694 a year and half less, against $91,166 across New Castle County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bellefonte is a small town in New Castle County, Delaware, with a population somewhat older than many places and household incomes just under the county's. Typical home values sit in a moderate range, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a modest amount of snow, summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and government also employing a good number. Across New Castle County, the largest workplaces include 50 Christiana, a hospital, the University of Delaware, and Amazon's warehousing operations. The usual commute is a fairly short one, and a notable group of residents work from home. The county added jobs last year, though unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Delaware Art Museum offers a museum visit, and Fort Christina is a fort with history to explore. Brandywine Creek is a river close by, a short drive away, for time outdoors. For a larger outing, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 587households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents 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 38° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilmington Porter Rsch weather station, 2 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; Bellefonte 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bellefonte’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.
Bellefonte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellefonte$303,228
- 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 Bellefonte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellefonte — 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.