Pull up Camden Wyoming on two different real estate sites in the same week and you'll get two different towns. One will tell you the median home price sits around $520,000. The other will put it closer to $400,000. Neither is wrong. Neither is stale. They're just measuring different months, and in Camden Wyoming right now, that's enough to move the number by six figures.
If you're comparing this town to somewhere else in Kent County or trying to figure out what a house here actually costs, that gap matters more than it looks. It means the "median" isn't a fact about Camden Wyoming. It's a snapshot of whatever happened to close that month.
The number depends on when you looked
In May 2026, Camden Wyoming homes were listed at a median price of $520,000, working out to about $187 per square foot. By August 2026, the median had fallen to $399,000, with price per square foot barely moving, down to $186. Days on market told a similarly split story: a median of 31 days in May stretched to 69 days by August.
That's not a market correction. A 23 percent swing in three months, with per-square-foot pricing holding almost flat, is the signature of a sample that changed shape, not a market that changed value. Other sources tracking the same town in overlapping windows show the same scatter: one dataset put the average sale price closer to $310,000 with a per-square-foot figure near $140, while another set the average list price above $560,000. A single town, a handful of months, and a quarter-million-dollar spread in what counts as "typical."
Three subdivisions are rewriting the sample every month
Here's what's actually happening under the numbers. Camden Wyoming has several new-construction communities filling in at once, each with its own price ceiling, lot count, and pace, and each one changes the mix of what's closing depending on the month.
Ryan Homes broke ground on South Mills Landing at the start of the year, a 567-lot community spread across 184.93 acres that will eventually include 383 single-family homes and 184 townhomes. Local reporting from January 2026 called it the most active new-build launch the area had seen in more than a year, and eight months later it's still filling in phase by phase. A few miles away, a much smaller custom-home subdivision called Keeter Barn Landing is being built out lot by lot by Sicario Properties, with builder Joey Coppersmith completing the sixteenth home there as of early 2026 and expecting to stay busy through the rest of the year. Ryan Homes also has an already-selling community, The Ponds at Willow Grove, adding another stream of new-construction closings to the mix.
"Our standard features are what other communities call high end," Coppersmith said of the homes going up in Keeter Barn Landing.
Meanwhile, the town's older housing stock hasn't gone anywhere. Most of it dates to the 2000s, ranch and split-level homes on established streets, and it still makes up a large share of what sells in any given month. There's even a circa-1840 Greek Revival estate called Spruce Acres that's turned up on the market recently, a reminder that "Camden Wyoming" covers a genuinely wide span of housing eras, not one uniform product.
When a batch of new-construction closings lands in the same month as a run of older resales, the median splits the difference in a way that tells you almost nothing about either group. When new construction dominates a month's closings, the number jumps. When resales dominate, it falls back. That's the mechanism behind the $520,000-to-$399,000 swing, and it isn't going to settle down until these subdivisions finish building out.
Here's what that looks like side by side:
| Source and window | Metric | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Movoto, May 2026 | Median list price | $520,000 |
| Movoto, August 2026 | Median list price | $399,000 |
| Portal average, mid-2026 | Average sale price | roughly $310,000 |
| Portal average, mid-2026 | Average list price | roughly $563,000 |
And the new-construction communities driving that split cover a wide band themselves:
| Development | Builder | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mills Landing | Ryan Homes | 567 lots (383 single-family, 184 townhomes) | Broke ground early 2026, still filling in by phase |
| Keeter Barn Landing | Sicario Properties | 37 lots, custom | 16 homes complete, building through 2026 |
| The Ponds at Willow Grove | Ryan Homes | Established community | Actively selling |
New-construction pricing in Camden Wyoming currently ranges from about $265,000 to just under $975,000, depending on floor plan and lot, which alone explains why "average new-build price" is a moving target from one closing to the next.
Square footage is doing some of the quiet work too
There's a second layer to this. New construction in Camden Wyoming is running noticeably larger than the county norm, with one brokerage's data putting the average new-build size at roughly 3,267 square feet against a Kent County average closer to 2,289. Floor plans across the area's new communities span from about 1,059 to 4,200 square feet. When a bigger new-construction batch closes, it doesn't just push the median price up. It pushes the average square footage of what sold up too, which is part of why price-per-square-foot has stayed relatively steady even while the headline price hasn't.
That's useful to know if you're trying to compare "cost per square foot" across towns as a cleaner metric than median price. In Camden Wyoming, even that number is being stretched by which subdivision happened to be closing homes that month.
What to actually ask before you trust a comparison
If you're using Camden Wyoming's price data to compare it against another town, or to size up what your money buys here, a townwide median isn't going to get you there on its own. A few questions get you closer:
- Which subdivision are these comps drawn from, and is it new construction or resale?
- What month or quarter does this number cover, and how many closings does it represent?
- Is the home you're looking at inside one of the active build-out communities (South Mills Landing, Keeter Barn Landing, The Ponds at Willow Grove) or in an established neighborhood like Foxhall, Parkside, Willow Grove Mill, Springmill, or Hidden Creek?
Established neighborhoods tend to price closer to the resale end of the spectrum. New construction inside an active subdivision will price closer to the builder's current phase, which can shift meaningfully as a project moves from its early lots to its later ones.
The tax numbers won't help you triangulate either
If your instinct is to check assessed value as a sanity check on market price, Kent County adds its own wrinkle. The county completed its first property reassessment since the 1980s in 2024, ahead of New Castle and Sussex counties, and cut its tax rate from 36 cents to 5.72 cents per $100 of assessed value to keep the change revenue-neutral. The county held that rate steady heading into its fiscal year 2026 budget. That's a reasonable, well-managed adjustment on the county's part, but it means assessed value here reflects a one-time reset rather than an ongoing read on the market, which makes it a poor substitute for the sales data you're already finding hard to pin down.
A few questions worth asking directly
Is Camden Wyoming's market actually cooling, or is this just noise? Neither, really. Days on market has lengthened compared to the spring, but that's consistent with a market absorbing a large new-construction pipeline rather than one losing demand.
How long will the median keep swinging like this? As long as South Mills Landing and Keeter Barn Landing are still building out, expect the number to keep moving depending on which phase is closing. That's likely to be a multi-year window given the scale of South Mills Landing alone.
Does any of this affect financing or preapproval? Not directly, but it's a good reason to get a preapproval based on the specific home and subdivision you're considering rather than a townwide average, since the average won't reflect what that particular home is actually worth.
Camden Wyoming isn't a hard town to understand. It's just a town in the middle of an unusually active build-out, and the price data is going to keep looking unstable until that settles. If you're trying to figure out what a specific street, subdivision, or floor plan is actually worth here, that's a conversation worth having with someone who's watching these closings month to month, not just glancing at a townwide average.
Nicholas Barrett Group can walk you through what's actually selling in Camden Wyoming right now, subdivision by subdivision. Get a Free Home Valuation to see where your situation fits into the picture.
