Faulkner, Maryland.
Typical home $487,136 (-0.6% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$851 (+50%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $3,128 -1%
- $490,264$487,136 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.
- Faulkner$2,557
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Faulkner, MD fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Faulkner, Charles County, Maryland
The Census does not count Faulkner on its own, so the figures here are Charles County's. Half the county's households earn more than $122,816 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Charles County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Charles 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Faulkner is a small community in Charles County, Maryland, where most homes are lived in by their owners, which is the county-wide pattern. Across the county, household incomes are high enough that few families live below the poverty line, and many residents are adults with a four-year degree. Winters are cold with some snow, summers are warm, and rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in professional and business services, or in shops. Unemployment across Charles County has eased over the past year, and the county had more jobs in the most recent year than the one before. Many people drive some distance to work, and working from home is still less common than commuting.
Things to do. Chapel Point State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Thomas Stone National Historic Site, also a protected area, is a short drive away as well. Mallows Bay, an archaeological site, lies a longer drive off.
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- 60,875households
- 38.9median age
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Charles County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Charles County had 43,545 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mechanicsville Northeast weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Charles County
- Charles County Public SchoolsSchool district3,853FTE
- Charles County GovernmentAuditor's offices, government2,058
- College of Southern MarylandTwo-year college729
- Charles County Sheriff's OfficePolice departments664
- Civista Medical CenterGeneral hospital641FTE
- Waldorf Chevy CadillacNew car dealers369
- Waldorf ToyotaNew car dealers360
- Green Acres Nursing_NursingSkilled nursing facilities300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,694 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- 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 across Charles 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 Charles County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Faulkner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Faulkner$487,136
- 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 Faulkner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Faulkner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.