Rising Sun, Maryland.
Typical home $404,798 (+2.8% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,131 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,184 +3%
- $393,614$404,798 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,550 +22%
- $331,249$404,798 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.
- Rising Sun$2,125
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Rising Sun, MD rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland
Rising Sun is a town of 2,740 people in Cecil County. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Cecil County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cecil County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rising Sun is a small town in Cecil County, Maryland, with a fairly young population compared with many small towns. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Cecil County, some of the largest workplaces are Cecil County Public Schools, Union Hospital of Cecil County and Terumo Medical. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Susquehanna State Park, a protected area a short drive away, and Octoraro Creek, a river also close by, offer room to walk and spend time outdoors. Plumpton Park Zoo is a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 1,107households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cecil County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cecil County had 36,824 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 18 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Octoraro Lake weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cecil County
- Cecil County Public SchoolsSchool district2,111FTE
- Terumo MedicalInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing1,019
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs951
- Union Hospital of Cecil CountyGeneral hospital896FTE
- Medline IndustriesWholesale distribution of medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies727
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing720
- Cecil CollegeTwo-year college571
- Ryder Amazon Port DepositWarehouse and storage539
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 78 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,492 people in all across the county; Rising Sun has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rising Sun’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Cecil County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Rising Sun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rising Sun$404,798
- Maryland$424,890
- 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 2 Rising Sun listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rising Sun19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rising Sun9
Zip codes with a Rising Sun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rising Sun — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.