Bloomington, Maryland.
Typical home $123,347 (+13.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$253 (+64%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $14,274 +13%
- $109,073$123,347 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.
- Bloomington$647
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bloomington, MD rose 13.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bloomington, Garrett County, Maryland
Bloomington, in Garrett County, had 271 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bloomington is a very small community in Garrett County, in the western mountains of Maryland, where the Savage River runs in or beside town. Homes here cost less than most of the country, and the weather is on the cold side, with winters that run well below freezing at night and summers that stay mild and comfortable by day. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Across Garrett County, jobs are most often found in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces across the county are 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 a few fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Savage River is in or beside town, and Jennings Randolph Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Big Run State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer drive, Deep Creek Lake is a larger reservoir, and Literary Hall is a museum.
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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, 4 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; Bloomington 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
- 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 Bloomington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Garrett County.
Bloomington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bloomington$123,347
- 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 Bloomington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bloomington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.