Barton, Maryland.
Typical home $120,906 (+3.5% in a year). Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$352 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,072 +3%
- $116,833$120,906 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,169 +32%
- $91,736$120,906 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.
- Barton$635
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Barton, MD rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barton, Garrett County, Maryland
Barton is a town of 464 people in Garrett County. Half its households earn more than $50,972 a year and half less, against $67,688 across Garrett County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Garrett County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Garrett County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barton is a very small town in Garrett County, in the far western part of Maryland. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and residents are younger than in many small towns. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are mild, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people commute some distance to work, since only a small share work from home. Across Garrett County, the largest workplaces include Garrett County Public Schools, Garrett County Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The outdoors is close at hand. Savage River, a river a short drive away, and Dans Mountain State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, are among the nearest places to get outside. Jennings Randolph Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is another, and Deep Creek Lake, a larger reservoir, is a longer drive.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Garrett County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garrett County had 12,052 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Savage River Dam weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garrett County
- Garrett County Public SchoolsSchool district558FTE
- Garrett County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital397FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Pillar InnovationsUnderground mining machinery manufacturing312
- Garrett CollegeTwo-year college244
- BeitzelBalcony, precast concrete, installation239
- Goodwill Mennonite HomeNursing homes207
- Appalachian Parent AssociationIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential158
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,365 people in all across the county; Barton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Garrett County and the Cumberland, MD-WV metro.
Barton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barton$120,906
- 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 Barton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.