Forest Heights, Maryland.
Typical home $342,755 (-3.2% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$786 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,269 -3%
- $354,024$342,755 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,305 +3%
- $331,451$342,755 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.
- Forest Heights$1,799
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Forest Heights, MD fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forest Heights, Prince George's County, Maryland
Forest Heights is a town of 2,658 people in Prince George's County. Half its households earn more than $98,734 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Prince George's County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Prince George's County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forest Heights is a small town in Prince George's County, Maryland, with a settled, residential feel. Nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across most of the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and the typical resident is somewhere in middle age.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, government and the building trades. Commutes tend to be long, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Prince George's County, the largest workplaces include Prince George's County Public Schools, the University of Maryland-College Park and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Things to do. The museums and monuments of Washington are a short drive away. The Smithsonian Institution, the National Mall and the National Air and Space Museum are all within easy reach, along with memorials such as the Lincoln Memorial. The Anacostia River, also a short drive off, offers a quieter change of pace.
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- 811households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Prince George's County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prince George's County had 328,137 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oxon Hill weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Prince George's County
- Prince George's County Public SchoolsSchool district18,180FTE
- University of Maryland-College ParkUniversity or college10,690
- University of Maryland Global CampusUniversity or college5,424
- The Bozzuto Group CorporateAgencies, real estate5,024
- U.s. Census BureauFederal government · Department of Commerce3,238
- MGM Resorts InternationalHotels, casino3,002
- Contemporary Services2,434
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury2,340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 484 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,514 people in all across the county; Forest Heights has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 high in parts of Forest HeightsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forest Heights’ 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 Prince George's County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Forest Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forest Heights$342,755
- 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.
- Forest Heights7
Zip codes with a Forest Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forest Heights — 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.