Glen Echo, Maryland.
Typical home $1,287,802 (+0.2% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,327 (+53%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $3,177 +0%
- $1,284,625$1,287,802 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.
- Glen Echo$6,759
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Glen Echo, MD rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glen Echo, Montgomery County, Maryland
Glen Echo is a town of 279 people in Montgomery County. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glen Echo is a very small town in Montgomery County, Maryland, with a population that most people would call tiny. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and typical home values run well above what is common across the country. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Montgomery County, some of the largest workplaces are Montgomery County Public Schools, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Several of the country's best-known sights are a short drive away. The National Mall is a park lined with monuments and museums, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History is among the most visited of them. The National Zoological Park is also a short drive away.
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- 82%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 456,358 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 6 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalecarlia Rsvr weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Montgomery County Public SchoolsSchool district24,026FTE
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services10,506
- Food and Drug AdministrationFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services6,489
- RedJanitorial services, aircraft5,979
- National Institutes of HealthFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services2,473
- Montgomery CollegeTwo-year college2,464
- Holy Cross HospitalGeneral hospital2,440FTE
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyFederal government · Department of Commerce2,277
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 476 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,382 people in all across the county; Glen Echo has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glen Echo’s census tracts, 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 Montgomery County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Glen Echo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glen Echo$1,287,802
- 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 Glen Echo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glen Echo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.