Home values, rents and more in Blades, DE
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How Blades compares
The typical home in Blades, DE is worth about $244,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in Blades are 50% below the typical value in the Seaford metro area ($485,000) and 33% below the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in Blades fell 3.8%, compared with +0.6% in the Seaford metro area and +1.2% nationally.
The median household income is $56,875, against $81,497 in the Seaford metro area and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 1,071 people live in Blades (American Community Survey 2020–24).
Blades has the lowest typical home value of the 24 cities in the Seaford metro area and the 2nd-lowest of 55 in Delaware with Zillow figures.
Part of: Sussex County, DE · Seaford metro area · Delaware
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.