Galena, Maryland.
Typical home $422,742 (+1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,196 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,633 +2%
- $416,110$422,742 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,953 +21%
- $350,790$422,742 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.
- Galena$2,219
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Galena, MD rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Galena, Kent County, Maryland
Galena is a town of 539 people in Kent County. Unemployment in Kent County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Galena is a very small town in Kent County, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore, with a population that is small even by the standards of the county. Home values here sit well above what is typical for the country, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January and some snow most years, while summers turn hot by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in manufacturing. Across Kent County, Washington College, Kent County Public Schools and Chester River Hospital Center are among the largest workplaces. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Water and open land are the main draws nearby. The Sassafras River, the Elk River and the Bohemia River are all a short drive away, as are the Millington and Earlville Wildlife Management Areas, both protected areas. For a longer outing, Elk Neck State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 33%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 7,553 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 17 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chestertown weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kent County
- Washington CollegeUniversity or college491
- Kent County Public SchoolsSchool district322FTE
- Acts Communities of Maryland, Inc. - Heron PointContinuing care retirement communities187
- Chester River Hospital CenterGeneral hospital139FTE
- LaMotte ChestertownPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing137
- Dixon Valve and Coupling CompanyCouplings, hose, metal, manufacturing111
- Gillespie Precast - Plant 2Concrete products, precast, manufacturing109
- Redner's Warehouse Market ChestertownGrocery stores92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,393 people in all across the county; Galena has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Galena’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.
Galena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Galena$422,742
- 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.
- Galena14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Galena5
Zip codes with a Galena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Galena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.