Colora, Maryland.
Typical home $399,520 (+2.2% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,106 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,701 +2%
- $390,819$399,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,649 +21%
- $328,870$399,520 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.
- Colora$2,097
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Colora, MD rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colora, Cecil County, Maryland
The Census does not count Colora on its own, so the figures here are Cecil County's. Half the county's households earn more than $92,007 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Cecil County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cecil County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colora is a community in Cecil County, in the northeast corner of Maryland, where the land meets the borders of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in middle age. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Work from home is uncommon, so most people travel to a workplace each day. Unemployment across the county has fallen over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Susquehanna State Park is a protected area a short drive away, suited to walks and time outdoors. Plumpton Park Zoo, also a short drive away, is a zoo. Delaware Art Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and it is the best known of the nearby places on this list.
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- 40,595households
- 40.6median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Cecil County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cecil County had 36,824 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Conowingo Dam weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cecil County
- Cecil County Public SchoolsSchool district2,111FTE
- Terumo MedicalInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing1,019
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs951
- Union Hospital of Cecil CountyGeneral hospital896FTE
- Medline IndustriesWholesale distribution of medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies727
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing720
- Cecil CollegeTwo-year college571
- Ryder Amazon Port DepositWarehouse and storage539
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 78 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,492 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cecil County, 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 Cecil County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Colora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colora$399,520
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Colora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.