Marydel, Delaware.
Typical home $370,014 (+2.1% in a year). Dover, DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,122 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,759 +2%
- $362,255$370,014 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,416 +35%
- $273,598$370,014 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.
- Marydel$1,942
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Marydel, DE rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marydel, Kent County, Delaware
The Census does not count Marydel on its own, so the figures here are Kent County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,477 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marydel is a small town in Kent County, in central Delaware. Across Kent County, residents tend toward middle age, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Figures for the county show that a share of residents live below the poverty line, and that household incomes are a little under the state's typical level.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across Kent County has fallen over the past year, and the number of jobs in the county has slipped slightly. A minority of adults hold a college degree, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. The Delaware River is a longer drive away and is the best known water near the town. Closer by, the Murderkill River is a short drive away, and the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge and Killens Pond State Park, both protected areas, are a longer drive away.
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- 71,424households
- 38.8median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%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, 12 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. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kent County, 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 and the Dover, DE metro.
Marydel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marydel$370,014
- 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 Marydel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marydel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.