Georgetown, Delaware.
Typical home $370,904 (+0.2% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$994 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $631 +0%
- $370,273$370,904 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,682 +14%
- $325,221$370,904 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.
- Georgetown$1,947
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Georgetown, DE rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware
Georgetown is a town of 7,134 people in Sussex County. Half its households earn more than $49,719 a year and half less, against $81,497 across Sussex County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Sussex County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sussex 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Georgetown is the seat of Sussex County in Delaware, and it is a town where incomes run well below the county's. Fewer homes here are lived in by their owners than across the county as a whole, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot in July; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Perdue Foods, a poultry processing operation, and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in town, along with SUN Behavioral Delaware, a psychiatric hospital. Commutes are a little longer than a quick trip across town, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Georgetown Speedway, a race track, is in or beside town. For time outdoors, Trap Pond State Park and Cape Henlopen State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away, and Beaverdam Creek, a river, is only a short drive away.
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- 2,529households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Sussex County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sussex County had 96,307 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Georgetown Sussex County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Georgetown
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,267
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters279
- Sun Behavioral DelawarePsychiatric hospital183FTE
- PAM Rehab Hospital of GeorgetownRehabilitation hospital123FTE
- Easterseals/GeorgetownDay care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities103
- Sussex AcademySchool district94FTE
- PerdueBuilding cleaning services, janitorial87
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,237 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of GeorgetownRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Georgetown’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 Sussex County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Georgetown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Georgetown$370,904
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Georgetown listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Georgetown31.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Georgetown80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Georgetown14
Zip codes with a Georgetown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Georgetown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.