A typical Fenwick Island home is worth about $1,047,000
Up 5.5% in a year, 158% above the Delaware typical home.
What kind of housing town is Fenwick Island?
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What it takes to buy in Fenwick Island
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That’s $697K short of a typical Fenwick Island home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,540 a month here, $4,390 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Delaware typical property tax (0.50% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
95% of Fenwick Island households own their home
Half of Fenwick Island’s homes were built before 1987.
Delaware: 73% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Up 24.1% in five years
About the same pace as Delaware (21.4%).
Show as a table
| January | Fenwick Island | Delaware |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $580,000 | $256,000 |
| 2018 | $620,000 | $263,000 |
| 2019 | $580,000 | $271,000 |
| 2020 | $597,000 | $277,000 |
| 2021 | $717,000 | $306,000 |
| 2022 | $932,000 | $344,000 |
| 2023 | $965,000 | $370,000 |
| 2024 | $956,000 | $388,000 |
| 2025 | $1,021,000 | $397,000 |
| 2026 | $1,030,000 | $404,000 |
| August 2026 | $1,047,000 | $406,000 |
A typical Fenwick Island home worth $560K in September 2016 is worth about $1.05M today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,540
Renters already here pay a median of $1,438.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Sussex County, DE): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
On the market in Fenwick Island
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Fenwick Island buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.