Willards, Maryland.
Typical home $288,847 (+4.0% in a year). Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$867 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,113 +4%
- $277,735$288,847 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,543 +33%
- $217,304$288,847 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.
- Willards$1,516
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Willards, MD rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willards, Wicomico County, Maryland
Willards is a town of 963 people in Wicomico County. Half its households earn more than $75,333 a year and half less, against $76,210 across Wicomico County. Unemployment in Wicomico County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willards is a very small town in Wicomico County, Maryland, with a small population even by the standards of the Eastern Shore. Household incomes are close to the county's, just a little below, and a typical home is valued at about the same as in many small Eastern Shore towns. Winters are cold but not severe, with only light snowfall, and summers are warm, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, the building trades and retail. Across Wicomico County, the largest workplaces include Wicomico County Public Schools, TidalHealth Peninsula Regional and Salisbury University. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, the typical commute is a moderate one, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Calvin B. Taylor House is a museum, and Johnson Wildlife Management Area is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. A longer drive brings you to Assateague Island, a beach, and Trap Pond State Park, a protected area with woods and water.
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- 494households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wicomico County had 46,328 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury Wicomico Regional Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wicomico County
- Wicomico County Public SchoolsSchool district2,569FTE
- Tidalhealth Peninsula RegionalGeneral hospital1,927FTE
- Salisbury UniversityUniversity or college1,678
- Perdue FoodsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offic842
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing617
- Wor-Wic Community CollegeTwo-year college414
- Perdue TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload401
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 85 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,933 people in all across the county; Willards has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willards’ 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 Wicomico County and the Salisbury, MD-DE metro.
Willards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willards$288,847
- 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.
- Willards5
Zip codes with a Willards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.