Kent Acres, Delaware.
Typical home $351,669 (+1.8% in a year). Dover, DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,056 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,281 +2%
- $345,388$351,669 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,188 +32%
- $266,481$351,669 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.
- Kent Acres$1,846
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Kent Acres, DE rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kent Acres, Kent County, Delaware
Kent Acres, in Kent County, had 2,144 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. 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 residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kent Acres is a small community in Kent County, Delaware, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, a good deal more than is typical across much of the country. Typical home values sit well above what many neighbors might expect, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Snow falls in modest amounts, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Kent County, some of the largest workplaces are Bayhealth Hospital Kent Campus, Delaware State University and Perdue Foods. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has lost a few jobs over the most recent full year. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Moores Lake, a reservoir, is in or beside town, as is Star Hill AME Church, a museum. A short drive away are Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and the Air Mobility Command Museum. Dover Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a short drive away.
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- 830households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents 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, a mile 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; Kent Acres 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Kent Acres’ 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.
Kent Acres home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kent Acres$351,669
- 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.
Zip codes with a Kent Acres address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kent Acres — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.