Dickerson, Maryland.
Typical home $753,724 (+1.4% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,901 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,097 +1%
- $743,627$753,724 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,955 +13%
- $667,769$753,724 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.
- Dickerson$3,956
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Dickerson, MD rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Dickerson, Montgomery County, Maryland
The Census does not count Dickerson on its own, so the figures here are Montgomery County's. Half the county's households earn more than $132,450 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dickerson is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, where most adults hold a college degree and most homes are lived in by their owners. The figures on this page are for the whole county, since the Census does not count the town separately. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a fair amount of snow and rain through the year.
Work. Across Montgomery County, many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment has been falling across the county, though the number of jobs has edged down lately. A good number of people work from home, and the typical home value is high.
Things to do. Sugar Loaf Mountain is a protected area a short drive away, and it is a good place for a walk outdoors. Great Falls, a waterfall a longer drive off, and the National Zoological Park, a zoo also a longer drive away, are more places worth a visit.
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- 389,210households
- 40.2median age
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
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 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, 11 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. 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 weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montgomery County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Dickerson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dickerson$753,724
- 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 Dickerson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dickerson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.