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Home appreciation in Dover, DE

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Dover, DE grew an average of 9.1% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.6%

2025 over 2024. Delaware: +4.7%.

5-year, per year

+9.1%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Delaware: +9.0%.

10-year, per year

+6.3%

+85.1% in total since 2015. Delaware: +6.0%.

How does your home compare?

Dover, DE home prices rose 85.1% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +60.9% to +97.6%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Dover, DE compares with Delaware

The metro and its state moved almost together over that window. For five-year price growth, Dover, DE ranks 201st out of 409 metros nationwide and 1st out of 2 in Delaware.

Index, 2005 = 100

Dover, DE and Delaware, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearDover, DEDelaware
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2107104
2005 Q3110109
2005 Q4113111
2006 Q1115113
2006 Q2119116
2006 Q3121117
2006 Q4124119
2007 Q1126119
2007 Q2125120
2007 Q3125119
2007 Q4124119
2008 Q1125118
2008 Q2122116
2008 Q3119114
2008 Q4118112
2009 Q1119113
2009 Q2115110
2009 Q3111107
2009 Q4109106
2010 Q1107105
2010 Q2105104
2010 Q3106104
2010 Q4103103
2011 Q1103101
2011 Q29998
2011 Q39797
2011 Q49998
2012 Q110097
2012 Q29795
2012 Q39796
2012 Q49797
2013 Q19997
2013 Q29897
2013 Q39797
2013 Q49898
2014 Q19898
2014 Q29899
2014 Q3101100
2014 Q410099
2015 Q1102101
2015 Q2101101
2015 Q3102101
2015 Q4103102
2016 Q1105102
2016 Q2108103
2016 Q3108104
2016 Q4107105
2017 Q1108105
2017 Q2106105
2017 Q3107105
2017 Q4110106
2018 Q1111108
2018 Q2112108
2018 Q3112109
2018 Q4112110
2019 Q1111111
2019 Q2115112
2019 Q3118114
2019 Q4117114
2020 Q1119116
2020 Q2121117
2020 Q3124119
2020 Q4125121
2021 Q1130125
2021 Q2136130
2021 Q3142136
2021 Q4149141
2022 Q1155145
2022 Q2160154
2022 Q3166155
2022 Q4168157
2023 Q1164158
2023 Q2167160
2023 Q3171166
2023 Q4174166
2024 Q1182171
2024 Q2177173
2024 Q3180175
2024 Q4176176
2025 Q1186178
2025 Q2182180
2025 Q3197183
2025 Q4190186
2026 Q1198185
2026 Q2189187

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.3% a year over ten years, +85.1% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2007, fell 21.7% to its 2012 low, and regained the 2007 level in 2021.

The strongest year was 2022 at +16.6%, and the weakest was 2010 at -7.0%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.6%, against +4.7% for the state.

ZIP codes in Dover, DE

Over the ten years to 2025, the 9 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +60.9% in 19952 to +97.6% in 19953, while the metro as a whole rose 85.1%.

ZIP codes in Dover, DE ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
19953+12.3%+9.9%+7.0%+97.6%
19934+11.0%+9.5%+6.9%+95.4%
19962+6.4%+10.1%+6.6%+90.3%
19904+2.0%+8.3%+6.0%+79.6%
19901-1.5%+8.7%+5.9%+77.3%
19943+1.1%+8.0%+5.8%+75.5%
19977+4.2%+8.1%+5.8%+75.1%
19938-0.5%+6.8%+5.6%+71.7%
19952-0.8%+6.8%+4.9%+60.9%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

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Year by year

Annual house price index for Dover, DE and Delaware, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006111.4+11.4%109.5
2007116.2+4.3%112.2
2008112.5-3.1%108.5
2009105.5-6.3%102.7
201098.1-7.0%98.3
201192.5-5.7%92.8
201291.0-1.6%90.9
201391.1+0.1%91.6
201492.2+1.2%93.2
201595.0+3.0%95.5
201699.4+4.7%97.7
2017100.3+0.9%99.3
2018104.0+3.6%102.7
2019107.3+3.2%106.4
2020113.8+6.0%111.5
2021129.5+13.8%125.5
2022150.9+16.6%143.9
2023157.2+4.2%153.3
2024166.5+5.9%163.7
2025175.8+5.6%171.4

The 2 measured metros in Delaware

Measured metros in Delaware ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Dover, DE+5.6%+9.1%+6.3%
2Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ (metropolitan division)+4.8%+9.0%+5.9%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Delaware row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2