Kent County, MD · 311 properties with county records
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Betterton 21610 is in Kent, MD. The typical home value in Betterton 21610 is $321,970 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 0.7% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 44 days, and 0% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Aug 31, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 9 months of supply, neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 21610 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Kent's 9 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $378,332, so 21610 sits 15% below the county middle. Lotvox holds county assessor records for 311 properties in 21610.
Headline value data through August 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 21610 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Aug 31, 2026, 21610 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 44 days with 9 months of supply.
What do homes in 21610 sell for?
The typical home value in 21610 is $321,970 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 0.7% in a year. County records put the median at about $166 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 21610?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 21610 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 21610 compare to Kent?
21610's typical value of $321,970 compares with a middle value of $378,332 across Kent's 9 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for August 2026.
Where does this 21610 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Cite as: Lotvox ZIP market record, 21610 Betterton, MD, data through August 2026, https://lotvox.com/kent-county-md/zip/21610
Listings Flow Ladder — 21610
Faucet, basin and drain — new listings in, active inventory, closed sales out.as of Aug 31, 2026
Thin market — under 25 active listings; ratios withheld
the basin is fillingnet 1 listings/mo
Faucet — new listings
1/mo
100% of normal (1) · normal· baseline thin
Basin — active listings
6
75% of normal (8) · high· baseline thin
Months of supply
9 mo
derived — not published at this grain
Drain — closed sales
1/mo
50% of normal (1)· baseline thin
Net — faucet minus drain
+1/mo
filling
Reading
current
as of 2026-08-31
Compare against:2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31 · 5 same-month points
How plugged is the drain? Two definitions, both ours, deliberately not reconciled.
—Absorption vs its own normal— 1 - (closed sales / active listings) / same-month median of that ratio
—Closed sales vs its own normal— 1 - closed sales per month / same-month median closed sales per month
Closed sales over 24 months — two different numbers, deliberately not merged.
1/mofall in the monthly rate (67%)— peak 2/mo (2025-11-30) to 1/mo now
4transactions that did not happen— summed monthly shortfall vs the same-month normal, over 8 months below it (vs 2015-19 (COVID excluded))
rate_drop_from_peak is a change in the monthly rate; cumulative_shortfall_vs_normal counts transactions not transacted. They are different quantities and are not interchangeable.
2026-08-31
Redfin market data (county + ZIP), via Lotvox. As of 2026-08-31. Normal = same-month median of monthly rates, minimum 3 same-month points. Source window 3 months (flows shown per month). months_of_supply is not published at this grain (0 non-null rows measured); derived here as active listings / closed sales per month. A fresher supply-only read (0 new, 6 active, 2026-09-01, Realtor.com inventory (county + ZIP), via Lotvox) is available but is NOT used in the net — that source publishes no closed sales, so subtracting across it would mix two vintages.
Should you buy here?
buyer-timing lens
56affordability /100
Buyer leverage is balanced; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Balanced Market
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)25
Valuation Gap (25%)60
Buy vs Rent (15%)100
Days on Market (5%)60
Balanced market in 21610. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 26.6% of median income. Median days on market: 58. Renting is approximately 152% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 30.2).
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
WARMINGBALANCED
Market is warming with rising prices. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers.
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in 216 · out 174 · Kent County, MD (parent county of this ZIP)
active inventory
as of 2026-06-01 · IRS SOI county-to-county migration flows 2022-2023 + Redfin inventory history
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Kent.
Current tiers · 12 months to Invalid Datefloor 10 sales/tier
7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 21610.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
ZIP 21610→Kent County, MD
12-Month Direction
-1Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
45· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
28.8%
stretched
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.4% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-08
Price-to-rent
29.8x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation9
+53.5%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
9 mo
buyer's market
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-08-31
Insurance Risk
38/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
3.7%
MD 4.4%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0845d ago
Poverty Rate
13.0%
MD 9.8%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$74,402
MD $104,998US $82,006
Near national averages
Cost of Living (RPP)
108.5
MD 108.5US 100.3
Near national averages
Home Value (ZHVI)$388,079
County data: BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
Tenure by age of householder (ACS B25007) is not published below county. Any ZIP figure here is DERIVED from the county's age-specific owner rates applied to this ZIP's own age structure — never read directly.
Derived — this ZIP
15.7% in 2023
of owner-occupied homes have a householder 75 or older
