Fairplay, Maryland.
Typical home $426,537 (+0.5% in a year). Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,153 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,283 +1%
- $424,254$426,537 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,429 +20%
- $355,108$426,537 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.
- Fairplay$2,239
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Fairplay, MD rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairplay, Washington County, Maryland
Fairplay, in Washington County, had 537 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $120,652 a year and half less, against $77,747 across Washington County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairplay is a very small community in Washington County, Maryland, with far fewer people than most towns. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and the typical home is valued at a level that reflects that. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay near or below freezing at night, while July is the warmest and brings hot afternoons. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in the building trades. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington County Public Schools, Meritus Medical Center and FedEx. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Antietam National Battlefield, an archaeological site, is a short drive away, as is Antietam Creek, a river good for a quiet walk along its banks. Washington Monument State Park, a protected area, is also close by. For a longer outing, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 66,110 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hagerstown East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington County Public SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services2,113
- Meritus Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,038FTE
- Volvo Group Trucks OperationsAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,512
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,058
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage674
- Hagerstown Community CollegeTwo-year college594
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage583
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,240 people in all across the county; Fairplay 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairplay’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 Washington County and the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.
Fairplay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairplay$426,537
- 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 Fairplay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairplay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.