Milton, Delaware.
Typical home $475,702 (+0.6% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,329 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,946 +1%
- $472,755$475,702 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,170 +17%
- $407,532$475,702 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.
- Milton$2,497
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Milton, DE rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Sussex County, Delaware
Milton is a town of 3,291 people in Sussex County. Half its households earn more than $80,875 a year and half less, against $81,497 across Sussex County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 people in Sussex County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a small Delaware town in Sussex County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share who rent is lower than you might expect near the coast. Household incomes run just below the county's, and a good number of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July brings hot summers, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents of Milton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Sussex County, some of the largest employers are Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Beebe Medical Center and the Indian River School District. Many people drive a moderate distance to work, and a fair number work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Broadkill River is a short drive away, as is Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area of marsh and wildlife. Round Pole Branch runs in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Cape Henlopen State Park, another protected area, and to Funland, an amusement park in Rehoboth Beach.
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- 1,617households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Sussex County 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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sussex County
- Mountaire Farms of DelawarePoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,631
- Beebe Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,107FTE
- Mountaire FarmsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,090
- Allen HarimPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing2,081
- Indian River School DistrictSchool district1,492FTE
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,267
- Cape Henlopen School DistrictSchool district1,156FTE
- Bayhealth Hospital Sussex CampusGeneral hospital861FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 165 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,437 people in all across the county; Milton has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- 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 in Milton’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.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$475,702
- Delaware$405,061
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Milton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 65 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.
- Milton27.35%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Milton65
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milton130
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Milton27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Milton$460,418
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Milton97.38%
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.