Deer Park, Maryland.
Typical home $169,523 (-4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$291 (+49%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $8,175 -5%
- $177,697$169,523 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.
- Deer Park$890
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Deer Park, MD fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deer Park, Garrett County, Maryland
Deer Park is a town of 303 people in Garrett County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deer Park is a very small town in Garrett County, in the far western mountains of Maryland. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Garrett County, some of the largest workplaces are Garrett County Public Schools, Garrett County Memorial Hospital and Walmart. Commutes are short, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Deep Creek Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is Deep Creek Lake State Park on its shore. Swallow Falls State Park, also a short drive off, is a protected area known for its waterfalls. Those who want to travel farther can head to Blackwater Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 148households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
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 37° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 105 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakland Southeast 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; Deer Park 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 Deer Park’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.
Deer Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deer Park$169,523
- 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 Deer Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deer Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.