Dowell, Maryland.
Typical home $465,654 (-3.1% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,136 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,855 -3%
- $480,508$465,654 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,181 +12%
- $417,473$465,654 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.
- Dowell$2,444
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Dowell, MD fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dowell, Calvert County, Maryland
The Census does not count Dowell on its own, so the figures here are Calvert County's. Half the county's households earn more than $133,922 a year and half less; 4% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 87% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Calvert County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calvert County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dowell sits in Calvert County on Maryland's western shore, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, household incomes are high and few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with the coldest weather in January and the warmest in July.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, government, professional and business services, and building trades employ many residents across Calvert County. Joblessness across the county has eased over the past year, and job numbers have edged down only a little. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The Calvert Marine Museum is a museum in or beside town. Calvert Cliffs State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, also a museum, is a short drive away too.
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- 33,465households
- 40.8median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Calvert County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calvert County had 22,528 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Solomons weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calvert County
- Calvert County Public SchoolsSchool district2,220FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear800
- Calvert Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital757FTE
- Chesapeake Technology InternationalApplications software programming services, custom computer218
- Asbury SolomonsRetirement communities, continuing care194
- Cove Point LNG (2)Pipeline terminal facilities, independently operated184
- WalmartDiscount department stores173
- Calvert Internal MedicineInternists' offices168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,463 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Calvert County, 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 Calvert County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Dowell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dowell$465,654
- 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.
- Dowell11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dowell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dowell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.