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Leitersburg, Maryland.

Typical home $301,817 (-2.2% in a year). Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.

What it costs per month · Leitersburg $1,584/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$555 (+54%) since Feb 2022.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $6,911 -2%
$308,727$301,817 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Leitersburg $1,584 Maryland $2,230 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Leitersburg$1,584
  • Maryland$2,230
  • United States$1,922

Typical home values in Leitersburg, MD fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Leitersburg, Washington County, Maryland

Leitersburg, in Washington County, had 569 people in the 2020 census. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 569 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Leitersburg for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.9% Washington County, August 2026; 4.9% a year before
Homes 99% lived in by their owners; 1% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leitersburg is a very small community in Washington County, Maryland, where almost every home is lived in by the people who own it. Typical home values are well above what many older owners paid long ago, and household incomes across the county are modest rather than high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July.

Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and the building trades. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Washington County Public Schools, Meritus Medical Center and Volvo Group Trucks Operations. Getting to work is a moderate drive for a typical resident, and only a few work from home.

Things to do. A short drive away, Pen Mar Park offers open park ground, and South Mountain State Park is a protected area for walking in the hills. The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, also a short drive off, is the nearest museum. For a longer outing, Antietam National Battlefield is a longer drive away and is one of the best known historic sites in the region.

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  • 26 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What people in Washington County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Professional and business services12%
  • Building trades9%
  • Government8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 66,110 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 39° and 22°; warmest in July, 86° and 63° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 39° 22° F M A M J J 86° 63° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 39° and 22°; warmest in July, 86° and 63° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 39° 22° F M A M J J 86° 63° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithsburg 2NW weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Washington County

  1. Washington County Public SchoolsSchool district3,388FTE
  2. FedExCourier and express delivery services2,113
  3. Meritus Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,038FTE
  4. Volvo Group Trucks OperationsAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,512
  5. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,058
  6. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage674
  7. Hagerstown Community CollegeTwo-year college594
  8. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage583

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,240 people in all across the county; Leitersburg has one 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

  1. DroughtRelatively moderate
  2. HurricanesRelatively moderate
  3. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  4. Strong windRelatively moderate
  5. LightningRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leitersburg’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 Washington County and the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro.

Leitersburg home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$300,000 $350,000 $400,000 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Leitersburg $301,817 Maryland $424,890 United States $366,157
$300,000 $350,000 $400,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Leitersburg$301,817
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Leitersburg address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leitersburg — 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.