Fort Howard, Maryland.
Typical home $336,301 (-0.1% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$637 (+56%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $240 -0%
- $336,541$336,301 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.
- Fort Howard$1,765
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fort Howard, MD fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Howard, Baltimore County, Maryland
The Census does not count Fort Howard on its own, so the figures here are Baltimore County's. Half the county's households earn more than $91,768 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Baltimore County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baltimore County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Howard is a community in Baltimore County, Maryland, with the Patapsco River in or beside town. Across the county, the population skews toward middle age, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Across Baltimore County, most jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and government. Unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs eased slightly last year. Many adults hold a degree, and a modest share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Fort Howard itself and the Patapsco River are in or beside town. Fort McHenry, a fort tied to the national anthem, is a short drive away. The National Aquarium, in Baltimore, is a longer drive away.
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- 332,801households
- 39.7median age
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Baltimore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baltimore County had 369,662 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 73°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Md Sci Ctr Baltimore weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baltimore County
- Baltimore County Public SchoolsSchool district15,462FTE
- Social Security AdministrationFederal government5,991
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,725
- Towson UniversityUniversity or college3,199
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services2,721
- Community College of Baltimore CountyTwo-year college2,687
- University of Maryland-Baltimore CountyUniversity or college2,493
- Baltimore County PoliceLaw enforcement statistics centers, government2,400
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 534 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,883 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Baltimore 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 Baltimore County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Fort Howard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Howard$336,301
- 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 Fort Howard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Howard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.