Big Pool, Maryland.
Typical home $370,288 (+2.6% in a year). Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$747 (+62%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $9,532 +3%
- $360,756$370,288 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.
- Big Pool$1,944
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Big Pool, MD rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Pool, Washington County, Maryland
Big Pool, in Washington County, had 78 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Pool is a very small community in Washington County, Maryland, with far fewer residents than most towns, so people here tend to know one another. Homes sit among the county's quieter countryside. The town is a place where daily life tends to be unhurried and close-knit.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, and others work in professional and business services or the building trades. Across Washington County, the number of jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Work here is much like the county's, with a mix of local service jobs and trades.
Things to do. Fort Frederick is in or beside town, and Cherry Run flows in or beside it as well, so both are easy to reach on foot or by a short trip. For a longer outing, Antietam National Battlefield, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away. In winter, Whitetail Ski Resort is a short drive away for those who enjoy snow sports.
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What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 66,110 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Martinsburg weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington County Public SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services2,113
- Meritus Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,038FTE
- Volvo Group Trucks OperationsAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,512
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,058
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage674
- Hagerstown Community CollegeTwo-year college594
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage583
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,240 people in all across the county; Big Pool 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Big Pool’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 Washington County and the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
Big Pool home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Pool$370,288
- 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 Big Pool address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Pool — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.