Cabin John, Maryland.
Typical home $1,264,444 (+0.7% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,192 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,383 +1%
- $1,255,061$1,264,444 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $176,765 +16%
- $1,087,679$1,264,444 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.
- Cabin John$6,637
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Cabin John, MD rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cabin John, Montgomery County, Maryland
Cabin John, in Montgomery County, had 2,459 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cabin John is a small community in Montgomery County where almost everyone owns the home they live in, and homes are valued well above what is typical across the country. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and nearly all adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with only light snowfall, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Montgomery County, the largest workplaces include Montgomery County Public Schools, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before, and the typical commute takes a fair stretch of the morning.
Things to do. Washington's central sights are a short drive away. The National Mall is a long park lined with monuments and museums, and the Smithsonian Institution, also a short drive off, runs many of those museums. The National Zoological Park is another short drive away, which makes for an easy outing with visiting family.
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- 874households
- 87%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 456,358 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalecarlia Rsvr weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Montgomery County Public SchoolsSchool district24,026FTE
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services10,506
- Food and Drug AdministrationFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services6,489
- RedJanitorial services, aircraft5,979
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services2,473
- Montgomery CollegeTwo-year college2,464
- Holy Cross HospitalGeneral hospital2,440FTE
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyFederal government · Department of Commerce2,277
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 476 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,382 people in all across the county; Cabin John has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cabin John’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 Montgomery County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Cabin John home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cabin John$1,264,444
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cabin John6
Zip codes with a Cabin John address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cabin John — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.