Felton, Delaware.
Typical home $390,679 (+2.3% in a year). Dover, DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,162 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,867 +2%
- $381,812$390,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,207 +30%
- $301,472$390,679 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.
- Felton$2,051
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Felton, DE rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Felton, Kent County, Delaware
Felton is a town of 1,316 people in Kent County. Unemployment in Kent County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kent 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Felton is a small town in Kent County, Delaware, where homes cost more than the typical home in many parts of the county and incomes in town sit below the county's. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Kent County, some of the largest workplaces are Bayhealth Hospital Kent Campus, Perdue Foods and the Caesar Rodney School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly, and most people commute a moderate distance to work.
Things to do. Killens Pond State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and the Murderkill River also runs in or beside town. A short drive away, Moores Lake is a reservoir, and Star Hill AME Church is a museum. For a longer outing, Dover Motor Speedway is a race track a longer drive away.
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- 28%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Kent County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 70,905 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dover weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kent County
- Bayhealth Hospital Kent CampusGeneral hospital1,745FTE
- Delaware Technical Community College-TerryUniversity or college1,602
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,444
- Caesar Rodney School DistrictSchool district1,121FTE
- Delaware State UniversityUniversity or college1,029
- Capital School DistrictSchool district834FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage829
- Smyrna School DistrictSchool district696FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,531 people in all across the county; Felton has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Felton’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 Kent County and the Dover, DE metro.
Felton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Felton$390,679
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Felton 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.
- Felton30.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Felton47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Felton12
Zip codes with a Felton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Felton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Felton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19943 | Felton | 13,410 | — | $391,975 |
| 19952 | Harrington | 10,908 | — | $344,683 |