Denton, Maryland.
Typical home $358,395 (+0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,003 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $575 +0%
- $357,821$358,395 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,183 +18%
- $303,212$358,395 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.
- Denton$1,881
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Denton, MD rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland
Denton is a town of 4,848 people in Caroline County. Half its households earn more than $66,510 a year and half less, against $68,457 across Caroline County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Caroline County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denton is a small town in Caroline County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and slightly fewer homes are lived in by their owners than rent. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and snow falls in modest amounts, with rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Denton are Caroline County Public Schools, Denton Nursing & Rehab and Food Lion. The typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home. Across Caroline County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Martinak State Park, a protected area in or beside town, is the closest place to get outdoors. A short drive away are Adkins Arboretum, a botanical garden, and Tuckahoe State Park, another protected area. Farther afield, the Chester River and Dover Motor Speedway, a race track, are a longer drive away.
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- 1,798households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Caroline County had 9,016 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 13 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenwood 2NE weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Denton
- Caroline County Public SchoolsSchool district930FTE
- County Commissioners of Caroline County341
- Denton Nursing & RehabSkilled nursing facilities130
- Food LionGrocery stores71
- Chesapeake Caregivers Management CompanyHomes for the elderly with nursing care64
- UniSite DesignFurniture frames and parts, metal, manufacturing62
- Tanglewood ConservatoriesSheds, prefabricated wood, manufacturing29
- Denton LocationTrucking, general freight, local27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 724 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denton’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 Caroline County.
Denton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denton$358,395
- 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 4 Denton 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.
- Denton26.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Denton41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Denton7
Zip codes with a Denton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.