Delmar, Maryland.
Typical home $293,291 (+1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,312 . Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$818 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,245 +1%
- $290,046$293,291 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,261 +23%
- $239,030$293,291 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$1,539
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Delmar, MD rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Delmar, Wicomico County, Maryland
Delmar is a town of 3,798 people in Wicomico County. Half its households earn more than $85,174 a year and half less, against $76,210 across Wicomico County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Wicomico County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wicomico County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Delmarva Peninsula, and its name comes from the states it sits between. Household incomes here run above the county's, and a typical home costs less than many people expect for the region. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing at best, summers turn hot by July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Wicomico County, the largest workplaces include Wicomico County Public Schools, TidalHealth Peninsula Regional and Salisbury University. Most people commute a moderate distance to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Salisbury Zoo and Trap Pond State Park are both a short drive away, one a zoo and the other a protected area with room to walk and be outdoors. Delaware International Speedway, a race track, is in or beside town. For time near water, Schumaker Pond, a reservoir, is also a short drive away.
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- 1,802households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Wicomico County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wicomico County had 46,328 jobs in 2025, 0.4% 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wicomico County
- Wicomico County Public SchoolsSchool district2,569FTE
- Tidalhealth Peninsula RegionalGeneral hospital1,927FTE
- Salisbury UniversityUniversity or college1,678
- Perdue FoodsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offic842
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing617
- Wor-Wic Community CollegeTwo-year college414
- Perdue TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload401
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 85 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,933 people in all across the county; Delmar 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of DelmarRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of DelmarRelatively 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 Delmar’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 Wicomico 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$293,291
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 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.
- Delmar32.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delmar33
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.
Zip codes in Delmar
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21875 | Delmar | 7,646 | $1,312 | $294,578 |
| 21837 | Mardela Springs | 2,891 | — | $290,828 |