Wingate, Maryland.
Typical home $122,131 (-0.8% in a year). Cambridge, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$170 (+36%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $1,046 -1%
- $123,177$122,131 since Sep 2025
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.
- Wingate$641
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wingate, MD fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wingate, Dorchester County, Maryland
The Census does not count Wingate on its own, so the figures here are Dorchester County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,839 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Dorchester County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dorchester 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wingate lies in Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the land is low and flat and water is never far away. Winters are cold, summers are hot, snow is light, and rain falls often through the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households have modest incomes.
Work. Across Dorchester County, most jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the county's job count has dipped slightly. Working from home is uncommon, and relatively few adults hold a college degree.
Things to do. Nanticoke River, a short drive away, is a river that draws boaters and anglers. Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, also a short drive away, is a protected area of marsh and woodland known for its wildlife. The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument, a longer drive away, is a protected area that honors Harriet Tubman and the people who escaped slavery along the routes she knew.
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- 13,546households
- 43.5median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Dorchester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dorchester County had 11,861 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 71°. About 12 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Patuxent River Nas weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dorchester County
- Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing PlantPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,845
- Dorchester County Public SchoolsSchool district845FTE
- Dorchester CountyLocal government428
- Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort Spa and MarinaChesa308
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters272
- B and G Foods North AmericaPickles manufacturing210
- Protenergy Natural FoodsBroth canning195
- Eastern Shore Hospital CenterPsychiatric hospital169FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,204 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 Dorchester 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 Dorchester County and the Cambridge, MD metro.
Wingate home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wingate$122,131
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wingate address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wingate — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.