Eden, Maryland.
Typical home $314,964 (-3.7% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$788 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,005 -4%
- $326,970$314,964 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,723 +9%
- $290,242$314,964 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.
- Eden$1,653
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Eden, MD fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eden, Worcester County, Maryland
Eden, in Worcester County, had 803 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Worcester County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Worcester County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eden is a small community in Worcester County, Maryland, small enough that most people here know one another by sight if not by name. Homes are valued somewhat above what many older buyers might expect for a rural stretch of the Eastern Shore. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in professional and business services or in shops. Across Worcester County, the largest workplaces include Worcester County Public Schools, Atlantic General Hospital and Walmart. Jobs in the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Salisbury Zoo and the Salisbury University Arboretum, a botanical garden, make easy outings, and Schumaker Pond, a reservoir, is close by for time near the water. For a longer day, Assateague Island offers a beach, and it sits a longer drive away. The Nanticoke River is also a longer drive from town.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Worcester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Worcester County had 26,246 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer 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 89° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Worcester County
- Worcester County Public SchoolsSchool district1,254FTE
- Atlantic General HospitalGeneral hospital758FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters433
- Sysco Eastern MarylandGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers337
- Worcester County GovernmentCounty commissioners298
- Ocean DownsRacetracks284
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters258
- Bay Shore DevelopmentAmusement parks161
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,941 people in all across the county; Eden has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of EdenRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eden’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 Worcester County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Eden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eden$314,964
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eden5
Zip codes with a Eden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.