Cooksville, Maryland.
Typical home $920,192 (+1.2% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,434 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,887 +1%
- $909,305$920,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,601 +19%
- $771,591$920,192 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.
- Cooksville$4,830
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Cooksville, MD rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Cooksville, Howard County, Maryland
The Census does not count Cooksville on its own, so the figures here are Howard County's. Half the county's households earn more than $149,763 a year and half less; 5% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Howard County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Howard County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cooksville is a small community in Howard County, Maryland, lying between the cities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Winters here are cold and bring a fair amount of snow, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain falls a good deal through the year.
Work. Across Howard County, a large share of adults hold a degree, household incomes are higher than in most of the country, and few people live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and home prices run well above most of the country. Schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, government and retail employ many residents, and a good many people work from home; unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though job numbers have eased slightly.
Things to do. The Patuxent River, a river, lies a short drive away and suits a walk or a quiet afternoon by the water. M&T Bank Stadium, a stadium, is a longer drive away, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a museum, is also a longer drive off.
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- 121,065households
- 39.8median age
- 64%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What people in Howard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Howard County had 173,088 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 31 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Damascus Ssw weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Howard County
- Howard County Public SchoolsSchool district8,861FTE
- Howard CountyGeneral hospital1,492FTE
- Howard Community CollegeTwo-year college1,148
- FroneriCustard, frozen, manufacturing893
- Advarra -MarylandLaboratory testing services, medical818
- Maxim Healthcare ServicesHome health care agencies812
- Giant FoodGeneral warehousing and storag766
- Globus MedicalNeurologists' offices682
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 290 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,136 people in all. 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 high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Howard County, 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 Howard County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Cooksville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cooksville$920,192
- 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.
- Cooksville5
Zip codes with a Cooksville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cooksville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.