Bridgeville, Delaware.
Typical home $364,729 (+1.2% in a year), asking rent $3,032 . Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$971 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,185 +1%
- $360,545$364,729 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,494 +15%
- $318,235$364,729 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.
- Bridgeville$1,914
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Bridgeville, DE rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware
Bridgeville is a town of 2,568 people in Sussex County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Sussex County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sussex County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeville is a small town in Sussex County, Delaware, with an older population than most places in the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of residents are over retirement age. Typical home values and rents sit high, and household incomes in the county run below what that might suggest, with a portion of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Among the larger workplaces in Bridgeville are Goodwill Industries, Simmons Animal Nutrition and a Wawa convenience store. Unemployment across Sussex County has been steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Clear Brook runs in or beside town, and several small streams, including West Branch Gum Branch, Chapel Branch and Deep Creek, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Trap Pond State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Broadkill River is also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,359households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Sussex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sussex County had 96,307 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 13 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenwood 2NE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sussex County
- Mountaire Farms of DelawarePoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,631
- Beebe Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,107FTE
- Mountaire FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,090
- Allen HarimPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,081
- Indian River School DistrictSchool district1,492FTE
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,267
- Cape Henlopen School DistrictSchool district1,156FTE
- Bayhealth Hospital Sussex CampusGeneral hospital861FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 165 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,437 people in all across the county; Bridgeville has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bridgeville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Sussex County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Bridgeville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeville$364,729
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Bridgeville listings — the market is cooling.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bridgeville31.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bridgeville49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bridgeville10
Zip codes with a Bridgeville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bridgeville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19933 | Bridgeville | 10,597 | $3,032 | $365,908 |
| 19950 | Greenwood | 7,918 | — | $379,125 |