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Apartment locating and rental home searches in Wilmington-New Castle, Newark, Dover-Kent County, and Coastal Sussex County each follow different rent patterns, neighborhood structures, and housing authority boundaries. Choose the metro that fits where you want to live and start the search from there.

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Select the housing area closest to where you want to find an apartment or rental home. Wilmington-New Castle, Newark, Dover-Kent County and Coastal Sussex County represent different local rental geographies, surrounding communities, and housing-authority boundaries.

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Select one of the four housing markets above to keep the apartment or rental-home search tied to the area where you actually want to live.

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Delaware Housing Markets

Four Housing Markets, One Starting Point

Apartment and rental-home searches across Delaware work best when the destination is tied to a specific city, county, borough, planning region, or ZIP. These four representative housing areas give members a clear place to start while keeping the statewide pathways available.

Wilmington-New Castle Housing Search

Wilmington, New Castle, Claymont, Bear, Middletown, and communities across New Castle County. This market gives a practical starting point for apartment, rental-home, second chance, and voucher-holder housing pathways while keeping the exact destination visible.

Newark Housing Search

Newark, Pike Creek, Glasgow, Hockessin, Christiana, Bear, and nearby central New Castle County communities. This market gives a practical starting point for apartment, rental-home, second chance, and voucher-holder housing pathways while keeping the exact destination visible.

Dover-Kent County Housing Search

Dover, Camden, Wyoming, Smyrna, Harrington, and communities across Kent County. This market gives a practical starting point for apartment, rental-home, second chance, and voucher-holder housing pathways while keeping the exact destination visible.

Coastal Sussex County Housing Search

Rehoboth Beach, Lewes, Georgetown, Seaford, Millsboro, Bethany Beach, and communities across Sussex County. This market gives a practical starting point for apartment, rental-home, second chance, and voucher-holder housing pathways while keeping the exact destination visible.

Delaware search areas: Wilmington, New Castle, Claymont, Bear, Middletown, and communities across New Castle County; Newark, Pike Creek, Glasgow, Hockessin, Christiana, Bear, and nearby central New Castle County communities; Dover, Camden, Wyoming, Smyrna, Harrington, and communities across Kent County; Rehoboth Beach, Lewes, Georgetown, Seaford, Millsboro, Bethany Beach, and communities across Sussex County. Delaware does not map cleanly to four conventional metro areas. New Castle County is within the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington HUD rent geography, Dover has its own metro FMR, and Sussex County has its own HUD FMR. The four cards are therefore housing-search markets, not a claim that Delaware has four separate metros.

Delaware HUD Rental Data

FY 2026 HUD 2-Bedroom Fair Market Rents by Delaware Housing Market

Delaware uses three relevant HUD Fair Market Rent geographies in these four search cards. Wilmington-New Castle and Newark share the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington HUD rent geography; Dover and Sussex County use separate benchmarks.

$1,810

Wilmington-New Castle

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA FY 2026 two-bedroom FMR: $1,810. Wilmington-New Castle and Newark therefore show the same federal benchmark.

$1,810

Newark

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA FY 2026 two-bedroom FMR: $1,810. Wilmington-New Castle and Newark therefore show the same federal benchmark.

$1,470

Dover-Kent County

Dover, DE MSA FY 2026 two-bedroom FMR: $1,470. Use the exact ZIP and housing authority for local voucher research.

$1,399

Coastal Sussex County

Sussex County, DE FY 2026 two-bedroom FMR: $1,399. Use the exact ZIP and housing authority for local voucher research.

Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, FY 2026 Fair Market Rents. Wheel fills are proportional to the highest figure shown. Use labeled values for actual data.

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FY 2026 HUD 2-Bedroom Fair Market Rents by Delaware Housing Market

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