Claymont, Delaware.
Typical home $324,764 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,727 (+8.4%). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$924 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,039 +2%
- $318,724$324,764 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,521 +31%
- $247,243$324,764 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.
- Claymont$1,705
- 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 Claymont, DE rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Claymont, DE rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Claymont runs $517/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $551 in Jul 2025.
That is $2,244 a month against $1,727 rent: a $1,705 mortgage payment, plus $192 property tax and $348 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Claymont
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,244
- Renting$1,727
- Mortgage only$1,705
Property tax · $192/mo 0.71% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for New Castle County, DE
Insurance & upkeep · $348/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Claymont, New Castle County, Delaware
Claymont, in New Castle County, had 9,895 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $74,712 a year and half less, against $91,166 across New Castle County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. 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 shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Claymont is a community in the northern corner of New Castle County, home to a population just short of what would make it a small city. Residents are a bit older than the typical American, and more households own their homes than rent, though renting is common too. Incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and warm, hot days in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in banks, insurance and property. Within Claymont itself, the largest workplaces include Food Lion, Agile Cold Storage and a Wawa convenience store. Many people commute a fair way to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Delaware Art Museum is a place for an afternoon indoors, and Fort Christina is a historic fort on the Christina River, which is also a short drive off. Farther afield, Independence Hall and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the best known places to visit, both a longer drive away.
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- 4,302households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 16%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 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Claymont
- Food LionGrocery stores100
- Agile Cold StorageWarehousing, refrigerated52
- Wawa SiteConvenience store47
- GaudenziaSubstance abuse facilities, residential29
- Fisher Auto Part - CLAYDEAutomotive parts and supply stores28
- Wawa SiteConvenience store26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 282 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Claymont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Claymont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Claymont$324,764
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Claymont 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.
- Claymont26.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Claymont25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Claymont11
Zip codes with a Claymont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Claymont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.