Grantsville, Maryland.
Typical home $238,446 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,056 +3%
- $232,389$238,446 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,272 +18%
- $202,173$238,446 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.
- Grantsville$1,252
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Grantsville, MD rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grantsville, Garrett County, Maryland
Grantsville is a town of 968 people in Garrett County. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Garrett County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grantsville is a small town in the mountains of western Maryland, in Garrett County, and its population is small enough that most people know one another by sight. Most homes here are rented rather than lived in by their owners, and a good share of residents live on very low incomes. Winters are cold, with a lot of snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Garrett County, the largest workplaces include Garrett County Public Schools, Garrett County Memorial Hospital and Pillar Innovations. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and the typical commute is fairly short, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The Casselman River and Buckel's Bog, a small lake, are in or beside town, so a walk by the water needs no drive. New Germany State Park and Savage River State Forest are both a short drive away and offer protected woodland to explore. For a longer day out, Deep Creek Lake, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 481households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garrett County had 12,052 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 46 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meyersdale Ssw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garrett County
- Garrett County Public SchoolsSchool district558FTE
- Garrett County Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital397FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Pillar InnovationsUnderground mining machinery manufacturing312
- Garrett CollegeTwo-year college244
- BeitzelBalcony, precast concrete, installation239
- Goodwill Mennonite HomeNursing homes207
- Appalachian Parent AssociationIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential158
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,365 people in all across the county; Grantsville has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grantsville’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 Garrett County.
Grantsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grantsville$238,446
- 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.
- Grantsville13
Zip codes with a Grantsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grantsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.