Hartly, Delaware.
Typical home $369,786 (+2.7% in a year). Dover, DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,109 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,663 +3%
- $360,123$369,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,326 +29%
- $286,460$369,786 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.
- Hartly$1,941
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hartly, DE rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hartly, Kent County, Delaware
Hartly is a town of 73 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hartly is a small town in Kent County, Delaware, where most people know one another. Winters are cold, with colder weather than in much of the rest of the country, and summers are hot. Snow falls only lightly, but the town gets a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Very few people work from home, so most daily life happens out in the town and its surroundings.
Things to do. The Dover Motor Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away and is one of the better known places nearby. Silver Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, offers a quieter spot to spend an afternoon. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a longer drive away, is a good choice for a day outdoors.
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- 23 mintypical commute
- 1%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, 11 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; Hartly has none 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 Hartly’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 Kent County and the Dover, DE metro.
Hartly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hartly$369,786
- Delaware$405,061
- 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.
- Hartly8
Zip codes with a Hartly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hartly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.