Millsboro, Delaware.
Typical home $397,255 (-1.1% in a year), asking rent $2,243 . Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$963 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,335 -1%
- $401,590$397,255 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,418 +5%
- $376,838$397,255 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.
- Millsboro$2,085
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 66 years.
Typical home values in Millsboro, DE fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware
Millsboro is a town of 6,863 people in Sussex County. Half its households earn more than $78,707 a year and half less, against $81,497 across Sussex County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Sussex County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millsboro is a small town in Sussex County, Delaware, with a median age close to that of the country as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Millsboro are Goodwill Industries, Food Lion and a residential care facility on Mitchell Street. The typical commute is fairly long, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Whartons Branch, a river, runs in or beside town. A short drive away is Trap Pond State Park, a protected area, and Georgetown Speedway, a race track. For a longer outing, Cape Henlopen State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 3,276households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sussex County had 96,307 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Georgetown Sussex County Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Millsboro
- Food LionGrocery stores94
- Sevita 009999_DE OHD_230Residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities74
- Horizon DE South (First Class HVAC and Plumbing)Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors52
- MillsboroMail and parcel delivery52
- Lennar - DelawareResidential for-sale builders41
- Sevita 009520_DAYVocational rehabilitation services31
- Sevita 009999_DE OHD_28417Vocational rehabilitation services30
- Merck and CoVirus vaccines manufacturing23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 420 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- 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 Millsboro’s census tracts, 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 Sussex County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Millsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millsboro$397,255
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Millsboro listings, and the typical home goes pending in 45 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Millsboro27.01%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Millsboro45
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Millsboro304
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Millsboro60
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Millsboro$392,105
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Millsboro97.56%
Zip codes with a Millsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.