Ashton, Maryland.
Typical home $823,731 (+1.7% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,037 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,417 +2%
- $810,314$823,731 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,423 +14%
- $722,308$823,731 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Ashton$4,324
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Ashton, MD rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashton, Montgomery County, Maryland
Ashton, in Montgomery County, had 5,746 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $174,063 a year and half less, against $132,450 across Montgomery County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ashton is a small community in Montgomery County, Maryland, with an older population than most places and a high level of schooling, since most adults hold a four-year degree. Incomes run well above the county's, very few households live below the poverty line, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that often dip below freezing at night, while July is hot. Rain and melted snow are spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government, or in shops. Across Montgomery County, some of the largest workplaces are Montgomery County Public Schools, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Commutes are long, and a good share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The museums and monuments of Washington are a longer drive away. The National Mall is a long park lined with memorials and museums, and the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History are among the best known museums there. The Lincoln Memorial is also a longer drive away and is a protected landmark at the western end of the Mall.
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- 1,942households
- 66%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 39%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 456,358 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel West weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Montgomery County Public SchoolsSchool district24,026FTE
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services10,506
- Food and Drug AdministrationFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services6,489
- RedJanitorial services, aircraft5,979
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services2,473
- Montgomery CollegeTwo-year college2,464
- Holy Cross HospitalGeneral hospital2,440FTE
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyFederal government · Department of Commerce2,277
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 476 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,382 people in all across the county; Ashton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Montgomery County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Ashton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashton$823,731
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Ashton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.