Fort Washington, Maryland.
Typical home $443,679 (-0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,722 (-1.2%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,066 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,155 -1%
- $447,834$443,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,345 +7%
- $416,334$443,679 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.
- Fort Washington$2,329
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Fort Washington, MD fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fort Washington, MD fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fort Washington runs $1,496/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,663 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,218 a month against $1,722 rent: a $2,329 mortgage payment, plus $414 property tax and $475 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fort Washington
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,218
- Renting$1,722
- Mortgage only$2,329
Property tax · $414/mo 1.12% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Prince Georges County, MD
Insurance & upkeep · $475/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Fort Washington, Prince George's County, Maryland
Fort Washington, in Prince George's County, had 24,261 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $143,333 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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. Fort Washington is a community in Prince George's County where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Residents tend to be older than in many towns, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than is typical. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers are hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in shops. Close to home, the biggest workplaces include Fort Washington Medical Center, Giant and First Class Delivery Solutions. Commutes are long, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Prince George's County, jobs slipped slightly last year and unemployment has eased a little since a year ago.
Things to do. The Anacostia River is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the National Mall, a park lined with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and to museums such as the Smithsonian Institution and the National Air and Space Museum.
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- 8,540households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Washington
- First Class Delivery SolutionsCouriers and express delivery services406
- Fort Washington Medical CenterGeneral hospital284FTE
- GiantGrocery stores130
- MD OMG EMPNursing care facilities120
- NAI Saturn EasternSupermarkets and other grocery stores105
- Fort WashingtonMail and parcel delivery72
- Patent and Trademark OfficeFederal government · Department of Commerce26
- Food and Drug AdministrationFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,206 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Washington’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 Prince George's County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Fort Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Washington$443,679
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fort Washington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Fort Washington29.98%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fort Washington27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Washington132
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fort Washington40
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fort Washington$443,084
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fort Washington100.25%
Zip codes with a Fort Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.