Westover, Maryland.
Typical home $225,813 (+4.8% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$656 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,403 +5%
- $215,409$225,813 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,662 +23%
- $183,151$225,813 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.
- Westover$1,185
- 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 Westover, MD rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westover, Somerset County, Maryland
The Census does not count Westover on its own, so the figures here are Somerset County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,943 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westover is a small town in Somerset County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the land is flat and close to the water. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older on the whole. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain falls across much of the year.
Work. Unemployment across Somerset County has eased over the past year, and the county has added a little to its number of jobs. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government offices, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Working from home is less common than in many places, so most people travel out to their jobs each day.
Things to do. The Mar-Va Theater is a theatre a short drive away. Assateague Island, a beach a longer drive away, and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area also a longer drive away, are good options for a day out.
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- 8,348households
- 38.1median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 7,051 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- University of Maryland Eastern ShoreUniversity or college799
- Somerset County Public SchoolsSchool district599FTE
- The Sherwin-Williams CompanyBroom, brush, and mop manufacturing179
- Animal Comfort GroupLumber merchant wholesalers165
- Food LionGrocery stores77
- Food LionGrocery stores67
- Reynolds ExcavatingExcavation contractors30
- Mountaire FarmsChicken hatcheries25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 566 people in all. Colleges come 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Somerset County, 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 Somerset County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Westover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westover$225,813
- Maryland$424,890
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Westover12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Westover4
Zip codes with a Westover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.