Viola, Delaware.
Typical home $350,933 (+1.0% in a year). Dover, DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,040 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,506 +1%
- $347,427$350,933 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,370 +31%
- $268,564$350,933 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.
- Viola$1,842
- Delaware$2,126
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Viola, DE rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Viola, Kent County, Delaware
Viola is a town of 140 people in Kent County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Kent County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Viola is a very small town in Kent County, Delaware, where nearly every home is lived in by its owners. Typical home values are well above what the county's household incomes alone might suggest, and the share of people living below the poverty line is low. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a modest amount of snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Kent County, the largest workplaces include Bayhealth Hospital Kent Campus, the Caesar Rodney School District and Delaware State University. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. The Murderkill River and Tidbury Creek run in or beside town, and Killens Pond State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Moores Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Kent County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 70,905 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dover weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kent County
- Bayhealth Hospital Kent CampusGeneral hospital1,745FTE
- Delaware Technical Community College-TerryUniversity or college1,602
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,444
- Caesar Rodney School DistrictSchool district1,121FTE
- Delaware State UniversityUniversity or college1,029
- Capital School DistrictSchool district834FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage829
- Smyrna School DistrictSchool district696FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,531 people in all across the county; Viola has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- 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 Viola’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 Kent County and the Dover, DE metro.
Viola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Viola$350,933
- Delaware$405,061
- 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 Viola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Viola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.