Delmar, Delaware.
Typical home $338,851 (-1.1% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$872 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,643 -1%
- $342,494$338,851 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,685 +10%
- $308,166$338,851 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.
- Delmar$1,779
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Delmar, DE fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delmar, Sussex County, Delaware
Delmar is a town of 2,027 people in Sussex County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delmar is a small town on the Delaware and Maryland line, and its residents are younger than the typical American. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the poverty rate is modest. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in government. The largest workplaces in town are the Delmar School District, Food Lion and a Wawa convenience store. The typical commute is a fairly long one, which suggests that many people work in other towns nearby, and only a small share work from home. Across Sussex County, jobs have grown a little over the past year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Trap Pond State Park, a protected area a short drive away, is the natural choice for time outdoors. Salisbury Zoo is also a short drive away, and Delaware International Speedway, a race track, sits in or beside town. For a quiet walk or a look at the water, Horseys Pond, a reservoir, is close by as well.
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- 857households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 47° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury 2N weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delmar
- Delmar School DistrictSchool district117FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores85
- Wawa SiteConvenience store42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 127 people in all. School districts come 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delmar’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Delmar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delmar$338,851
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Delmar 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delmar17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delmar7
Zip codes with a Delmar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delmar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.