Darlington, Maryland.
Typical home $442,833 (+3.3% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,159 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,341 +3%
- $428,492$442,833 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,030 +19%
- $371,803$442,833 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.
- Darlington$2,324
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Darlington, MD rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Darlington, Harford County, Maryland
Darlington, in Harford County, had 398 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Harford County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harford County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Darlington is a very small community in Harford County, Maryland, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are typically valued well above what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect, and the county's household incomes are high. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July brings hot days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. People who live in Darlington work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government and in shops. Across Harford County, some of the largest workplaces are Harford County Public Schools, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and Harford Community College. Unemployment across the county has eased a little since a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Susquehanna State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Palmer State Park, and Broad Creek, a river, is close by as well. For a longer outing, Ladew Topiary Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away, and Rocks State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Harford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harford County had 96,105 jobs in 2025, 1.0% 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harford County
- Harford County Public SchoolsSchool district5,414FTE
- Upper Chesapeake Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,441FTE
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,075
- Kohl's939
- Harford Community CollegeTwo-year college867
- Frito LAYOther snack food manufacturing850
- Harford Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital433FTE
- Bel Air Auto AuctionAutomobile merchant wholesalers428
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 158 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,543 people in all across the county; Darlington has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), 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 moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Darlington’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 Harford County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Darlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Darlington$442,833
- Maryland$424,890
- 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 Darlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Darlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.