Lake Arbor, Maryland.
Typical home $411,612 (-2.0% in a year), asking rent $2,285 (+2.6%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$954 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,289 -2%
- $419,901$411,612 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,365 +6%
- $388,247$411,612 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.
- Lake Arbor$2,160
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Lake Arbor, MD fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lake Arbor, MD rose 2.6% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Lake Arbor runs $700/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $991 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,985 a month against $2,285 rent: a $2,160 mortgage payment, plus $384 property tax and $441 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lake Arbor
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,985
- Renting$2,285
- Mortgage only$2,160
Property tax · $384/mo 1.12% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Prince Georges County, MD
Insurance & upkeep · $441/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lake Arbor, Prince George's County, Maryland
Lake Arbor, in Prince George's County, had 14,541 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $121,211 a year and half less, against $101,798 across Prince George's County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% 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. Lake Arbor is a community in Prince George's County, Maryland, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run above the county's. Residents tend to be middle-aged, a majority of adults hold a four-year degree, and few live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with highs that stay well above freezing in the coldest month, and summers are hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in professional and business services, with retail close behind. Some of the largest workplaces in Lake Arbor itself are public ones, including the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center, the fire and emergency medical services, and the county's public works and transportation department. Commutes are long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Northwest Stadium, a stadium, is in or beside town. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Smithsonian Institution's museums and the National Mall are a longer drive away.
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- 6,340households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 19%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 Lake Arbor
- University of Maryland Capital Region Medical CenterHospital1,755
- Prince George's County, MarylandFire protection1,157
- Prince George's County, Maryland DPW T TRANSPORTATIONHighway, street, and bridge construction694
- Prince George's County, MarylandAdministration of public health programs392
- EBED Community ImprovementGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability100
- UnfiGrocery70
- LargoMail and parcel delivery65
- Lidl USRetail24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,257 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lake Arbor’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 Prince George's County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
Lake Arbor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lake Arbor$411,612
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lake Arbor 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.
- Lake Arbor29.77%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lake Arbor26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lake Arbor9
Zip codes with a Lake Arbor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lake Arbor — 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.