Issue, Maryland.
Typical home $512,786 (-0.6% in a year). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,279 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,117 -1%
- $515,902$512,786 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,848 +10%
- $465,938$512,786 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.
- Issue$2,691
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Issue, MD fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Issue, Charles County, Maryland
The Census does not count Issue on its own, so the figures here are Charles County's. Half the county's households earn more than $122,816 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Charles County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Charles County work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Issue is a community in Charles County, in southern Maryland. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are high while few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers are warm and wet, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in professional and business services, and in shops. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown a little. Commutes are long, and a smaller share of residents work from home than in many places.
Things to do. George Washington Birthplace National Monument, a protected area a short drive away, marks where George Washington was born. Mallows Bay, an archaeological site a longer drive away, and the Calvert Marine Museum, a longer drive away, are other places to visit.
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- 60,875households
- 38.9median age
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Charles County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Charles County had 43,545 jobs in 2025, 1.1% 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 85° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mechanicsville Northeast weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Charles County
- Charles County Public SchoolsSchool district3,853FTE
- Charles County GovernmentAuditor's offices, government2,058
- College of Southern MarylandTwo-year college729
- Charles County Sheriff's OfficePolice departments664
- Civista Medical CenterGeneral hospital641FTE
- Waldorf Chevy CadillacNew car dealers369
- Waldorf ToyotaNew car dealers360
- Green Acres Nursing_NursingSkilled nursing facilities300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,694 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Charles County, 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 Charles County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Issue home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Issue$512,786
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Issue listings — 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.
- Issue31.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Issue24
Zip codes with a Issue address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Issue — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.