Camden, Delaware.
Typical home $413,390 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,748 . Dover, DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,249 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,490 +3%
- $400,900$413,390 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,358 +31%
- $315,032$413,390 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.
- Camden$2,170
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Camden, DE rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Kent County, Delaware
Camden is a town of 3,715 people in Kent County. Half its households earn more than $63,267 a year and half less, against $74,477 across Kent County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Kent County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a small town in Kent County, Delaware, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the share of owners is higher than in many towns of its size. Incomes run below the county's, and fewer households than you might expect live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. Snow falls most winters, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and banks, insurance and property. Among the larger workplaces in Camden are Lowe S of Camden, a home center, and Redner's Warehouse Market Camden, a grocery store. The typical commute is moderate, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Kent County, unemployment has eased a little over the past year, though the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Moores Lake, a reservoir, and Allabands Mill Stream are both in or beside town, as is Star Hill AME Church, a museum. A short drive away are Killens Pond State Park, a protected area, and Dover Motor Speedway, a race track. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,779households
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 70,905 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dover weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camden
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter153
- Redner's Warehouse Market CamdenGrocery stores115
- Hilton Bus81
- Lifestar Response of Maryland, Inc. - Camden BaseParatransit transportation services36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 385 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camden’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 Kent County and the Dover, DE metro.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$413,390
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Camden listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Camden27.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Camden42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Camden12
Zip codes with a Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.