Massey, Maryland.
Typical home $376,587 (+10.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+67%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $34,106 +10%
- $342,481$376,587 since Sep 2025
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.
- Massey$1,977
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Massey, MD rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Massey, Kent County, Maryland
The Census does not count Massey on its own, so the figures here are Kent County's. Half the county's households earn more than $80,147 a year and half less; 10% 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 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Massey is a small town in Kent County, Maryland, and across the county most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents tend to be older than the typical American, and the town sits in a region where winters are cold and summers are hot. Rain falls often through the year, wetter than in many parts of the country.
Work. Across Kent County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, while the number of jobs has dipped slightly. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and most people commute by car to their work.
Things to do. The Massey Air Museum is in or beside town, so it is the easiest place to visit. Millington Wildlife Management Area and Blackbird State Forest are both a short drive away, and they are protected areas where visitors can spend time outdoors. The Delaware River is a longer drive away for a day trip.
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- 8,493households
- 48.6median age
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Kent County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 7,553 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 17 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chestertown weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kent County
- Washington CollegeUniversity or college491
- Kent County Public SchoolsSchool district322FTE
- Acts Communities of Maryland, Inc. - Heron PointContinuing care retirement communities187
- Chester River Hospital CenterGeneral hospital139FTE
- LaMotte ChestertownPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing137
- Dixon Valve and Coupling CompanyCouplings, hose, metal, manufacturing111
- Gillespie Precast - Plant 2Concrete products, precast, manufacturing109
- Redner's Warehouse Market ChestertownGrocery stores92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,393 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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, very 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.
Massey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Massey$376,587
- 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.
Zip codes with a Massey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Massey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.