Ocean View, Delaware.
Typical home $543,476 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $2,448 . Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,462 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,931 +1%
- $539,546$543,476 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,682 +10%
- $493,794$543,476 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.
- Ocean View$2,853
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Ocean View, DE rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ocean View, Sussex County, Delaware
Ocean View is a town of 2,636 people in Sussex County. Half its households earn more than $91,500 a year and half less, against $81,497 across Sussex County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ocean View is a small town where residents are, on the whole, older than in most of the country, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run higher than across Sussex County, and homes are priced well above what is typical elsewhere, with renting costing a good deal as well. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government and in shops. Across Sussex County, some of the biggest employers are Mountaire Farms of Delaware, which packs poultry, Beebe Medical Center, a general hospital, and the Indian River School District. Jobs across the county have grown a little over the past year, and unemployment there has held about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The coast is close at hand. Fenwick Island is a beach a short drive away, and Delaware Seashore State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive off. Cape Henlopen State Park is a longer drive, for a day out. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm and fairly wet through the year.
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- 1,376households
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 18%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 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 68°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ocean City Municipal Airport weather station, 15 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; Ocean View has none 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ocean View’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.
Ocean View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ocean View$543,476
- 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 3 Ocean View listings, and the typical home goes pending in 46 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Ocean View31.60%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Ocean View46
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ocean View138
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ocean View34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Ocean View$541,898
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Ocean View98.18%
Zip codes with a Ocean View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ocean View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.