Marion Station, Maryland.
Typical home $198,585 (+4.4% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$585 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,415 +4%
- $190,169$198,585 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,435 +22%
- $162,149$198,585 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.
- Marion Station$1,042
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Marion Station, MD rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion Station, Somerset County, Maryland
The Census does not count Marion Station on its own, so the figures here are Somerset County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,943 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion Station is a community in Somerset County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where most homes are lived in by their owners across the county. Many residents are settled near the county's rivers and marshes, and the area has a quiet, country feel. The town's surroundings, including wet ground and tidal waterways, shape daily life as much as its roads and houses do.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, and jobs have grown slightly. Few people work from home, so most daily routines involve travel to a workplace.
Things to do. The Pocomoke River, a river a short drive away, is a good place for time on the water. Janes Island State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, offers a quieter outing among the marshes. For a longer trip, Assateague Island, a beach a longer drive away, is one of the best known shore destinations nearby.
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- 8,348households
- 38.1median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 7,051 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 70°. About 8 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wallops Island Flight Fac weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- University of Maryland Eastern ShoreUniversity or college799
- Somerset County Public SchoolsSchool district599FTE
- The Sherwin-Williams CompanyBroom, brush, and mop manufacturing179
- Animal Comfort GroupLumber merchant wholesalers165
- Food LionGrocery stores77
- Food LionGrocery stores67
- Reynolds ExcavatingExcavation contractors30
- Mountaire FarmsChicken hatcheries25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 566 people in all. Colleges come 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Somerset County, 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 Somerset County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Marion Station home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion Station$198,585
- 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.
- Marion Station9
Zip codes with a Marion Station address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion Station — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.