Glenarden, Maryland.
Typical home $407,057 (-1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,750 . Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$997 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,577 -2%
- $414,634$407,057 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,145 +8%
- $375,912$407,057 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.
- Glenarden$2,137
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Glenarden, MD fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glenarden, Prince George's County, Maryland
Glenarden is a city of 6,402 people in Prince George's County. Half its households earn more than $106,414 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% 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 schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glenarden is a small city in Prince George's County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good many households have settled in for the long run. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Within the city itself, large workplaces include a transit operation, Wegmans Food Markets and Costco Wholesale. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Northwest Stadium is in or beside town, so game days are close at hand. A short drive away is the National Mall, along with museums such as the Smithsonian Institution and the National Air and Space Museum. The Lincoln Memorial is a longer drive away.
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- 2,255households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 20%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 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenn Dale Bell Station weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glenarden
- Mobico PCC US LLCBus and other motor vehicle transit systems606
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets387
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer254
- HelloFresh Delivery NetworkCourier services146
- At Home StoresHome furnishings stores28
- LindstromDoors, metal, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,448 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively 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 Glenarden’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.
Glenarden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glenarden$407,057
- 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.
- Glenarden14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glenarden5
Zip codes with a Glenarden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glenarden — 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.