Friendship, Maryland.
Typical home $635,123 (+0.8% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,217 (+57%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,317 +1%
- $629,806$635,123 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.
- Friendship$3,334
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Friendship, MD rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Friendship, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Friendship, in Anne Arundel County, had 384 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Anne Arundel County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Anne Arundel 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Friendship is a very small community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, with far fewer residents than most towns. Few households here live below the poverty line, and the typical home is worth far more than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Snow falls through the winter, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, government and shops. Across Anne Arundel County, some of the largest workplaces are Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Anne Arundel Medical Center and Northrop Grumman Systems. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The best-known places for a day out are a longer drive away. The Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums, and the National Museum of Natural History is among them. The National Mall is a large park lined with monuments, including the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, all a longer drive away.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
What people in Anne Arundel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anne Arundel County had 293,059 jobs in 2025, 1.6% 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 88° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Upper Marlboro Nnw weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anne Arundel County
- Anne Arundel County Public SchoolsSchool district11,336FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing6,206
- Southwest AirlinesScheduled passenger air transportation5,460
- Anne Arundel Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,463FTE
- Keller North AmericaFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors2,462
- Baltimore Washington Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,193FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing2,091
- Anne Arundel Community CollegeTwo-year college1,717
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 405 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72,512 people in all across the county; Friendship 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Friendship’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 Anne Arundel County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Friendship home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Friendship$635,123
- 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 Friendship address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Friendship — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.