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Braddock Heights, Maryland.

A community in Frederick County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Frederick County’s.

Living in Braddock Heights, Frederick County, Maryland

Braddock Heights, in Frederick County, had 3,075 people in the 2020 census. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Frederick County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Frederick County work in schools and health care, then professional services.

People 3,075 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Braddock Heights for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.3% Frederick County, August 2026; 3.9% a year before
Homes 90% lived in by their owners; 10% rented
  • 1,062households
  • 2%below the poverty line
  • 30%work from home

What people in Frederick County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Professional and business services18%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Government10%
  • Building trades9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Frederick County had 106,962 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 43° and 26°; warmest in July, 89° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 43° 26° F M A M J J 89° 68° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 43° and 26°; warmest in July, 89° and 68° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 43° 26° F M A M J J 89° 68° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Frederick Police Brks weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Frederick County

  1. Frederick County Public SchoolsSchool district7,031FTE
  2. Frederick Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital2,071FTE
  3. Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research - Ft. DetrickLife sciences research and development laboratories or services1,273
  4. Frederick Community CollegeTwo-year college1,069
  5. AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing CenterCulture media manufacturing772
  6. Thermo Fisher ScientificGeneral warehousing and storage650
  7. NVRManufacturer of house componets645
  8. FRE - Aldi INC Maryland621

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 208 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,121 people in all across the county; Braddock Heights 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

  1. Winter weatherRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Braddock Heights’ 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 Frederick County.