Home values, rents and more in the Dover metro area
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How the Dover metro compares
The typical home in the Dover metro area is worth about $372,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in the Dover metro are 8% below the typical value in Delaware ($405,000) and about the same as the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in the Dover metro rose 2.3%, compared with +1.2% in Delaware and +1.2% nationally.
Typical rent is $1,775 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index), 10% below Delaware ($1,976) and 8% below the U.S. ($1,932). Rents rose 4.7% over the past year.
The median household income is $74,477, against $84,954 in Delaware and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 194,786 people live in the Dover metro (Census Bureau estimate for July 2025).
The Dover metro has the 198th-highest typical home value of the 923 metro areas in the United States with Zillow figures.
Part of: Delaware
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Nearby metro areas
Counties in the Dover metro
Cities in the Dover metro
- Dover, DE $342,000
- Smyrna, DE $404,000
- Clayton, DE $411,000
- Camden, DE $413,000
- Harrington, DE $277,000
- Kent Acres, DE $352,000
- Wyoming, DE $307,000
- Rodney Village, DE $257,000
- Felton, DE $391,000
- Frederica, DE $376,000
- Houston, DE $391,000
- Magnolia, DE $420,000
- Bowers, DE $330,000
- Hartly, DE $370,000
- Viola, DE $351,000
Sources
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.