Barclay, Maryland.
Typical home $424,656 (+6.5% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$978 (+78%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $25,843 +6%
- $398,812$424,656 since Sep 2025
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.
- Barclay$2,229
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Barclay, MD rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barclay, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Barclay is a town of 183 people in Queen Anne's County. Unemployment in Queen Anne's County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Queen Anne's County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barclay is a very small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore, in Queen Anne's County, with few residents and a quiet, rural setting. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow each year, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall at a steady rate through the year, so the ground stays green.
Work. Many people who live in Barclay work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Queen Anne's County, the largest workplaces include Queen Anne's County Public Schools, Paul Reed Smith Guitars, a maker of musical instruments, and Food Lion, the grocery chain. Household incomes across the county are comfortable, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Things to do. Church Hill Theatre is a short drive away, and Blanco Ditch, a small waterway, is nearby too. A longer drive brings you to Tuckahoe State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and to the Chester River, one of the area's best-known waterways. Adkins Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Queen Anne's County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Queen Anne's County had 16,289 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 17 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chestertown weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Queen Anne's County
- Queen Anne's County Public SchoolsSchool district1,005FTE
- Paul Reed Smith Guitars Limited PartnershipInstruments, musical, manufacturing485
- REEB - Barclay CoreWood window frames and sash manufacturing242
- Green Thumb IndustriesHydroponic crop farming225
- Food LionGrocery stores117
- TargetDiscount department stores117
- NAI Saturn EasternSupermarkets and other grocery stores113
- REEB - Barclay FinishWood window frames and sash manufacturing101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,387 people in all across the county; Barclay has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barclay’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 Queen Anne's County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Barclay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barclay$424,656
- 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 Barclay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barclay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.